Dark sights in Transylvania
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Tomb of Tache Ionescu
The Tomb of Tache Ionescu, the head of a transitional government for a few months in 1921-22, is in the building next to the small church in the Sinaia Monastery. Stricken with cholera as a child, Ionescu came here. Quotations from his speeches are carved in stone on the mausoleum's interior walls.
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Hungarian Cemetery
Just east of the student ghetto, most easily reached from Str Avram Iancu down the hill, is an immense, highly memorable Hungarian cemetery, where dozens of revered Hungarian notables are buried.
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Military Cemetery
A block east of the Schei Gate, toward Mt Tâmpa, is a Military Cemetery, with Iron Crosses on tombstones from fallen locals who fought for the Germans in WWI.
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Heroes' Cemetery
At Str Republicii's northern end, across B-dul 15 de Noiembrie, is the Heroes' Cemetery, a memorial slab listing 69 local victims.
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