Hungarian Reformed Church

Cluj-Napoca


Commissioned by the king of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus, in 1486, this church took more than 20 years to complete. Its interior seems spare at first glance, but the carved wooden seats display grand Hungarian heraldry, and there’s a rococo red-and-green church organ (1765).

The statue out front of St George on horseback, making a dragon shish-kebab, is a copy; the original was whisked away to Prague.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Cluj-Napoca attractions

1. Tailor's Tower

0.09 MILES

Rotating exhibitions of local art within this stone tower can be somewhat threadbare. But it’s still worth wandering inside this pointy-roofed former…

2. Statue of Baba Novac

0.09 MILES

A statue of Serbian revolutionary Baba Novac, who plotted against the Ottomans, stands outside the 15th-century Tailor's Tower.

3. Hungarian Cemetery

0.22 MILES

Founded in the 16th century, this stately cemetery is a memorable place to stroll among elegant tombs and mausoleums of Transylvanian poets and composers,…

4. Metropolitan Museum

0.27 MILES

Housed beneath a gleaming white cathedral, this museum exhibits religious icons and other artwork.

5. Statue of Matthias Corvinus

0.29 MILES

Hogging the limelight in front of St Michael’s Church is a bulky 1902 statue of horseback Matthias Corvinus, the famous 15th-century Hungarian king.

6. National Art Museum

0.3 MILES

The permanent collection of this sizeable gallery has creaky rooms featuring 18th- and 19th-century art, mostly portraits of nobles and their bewigged…

7. St Michael's Church

0.32 MILES

The showpiece of Piaţa Unirii is 14th- and 15th-century St Michael’s, the second-biggest Gothic church in Romania (after Braşov’s Black Church). Its neo…

8. Pharmacy History Collection

0.34 MILES

Cluj-Napoca’s oldest pharmacy building holds an intriguing collection of medical miscellany. ‘Crab eyes’, skulls and powdered mummy are just a few of the…