Small regional history museum behind the Reform Church.
History Museum
Transylvania
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3. Alexandru Borza Botanic Gardens
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Founded in the 16th century, this stately cemetery is a memorable place to stroll among elegant tombs and mausoleums of Transylvanian poets and composers,…
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A statue of Serbian revolutionary Baba Novac, who plotted against the Ottomans, stands outside the 15th-century Tailor's Tower.
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Rotating exhibitions of local art within this stone tower can be somewhat threadbare. But it’s still worth wandering inside this pointy-roofed former…
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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…
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An encyclopedic collection of bottled, jarred and taxidermied specimens from butterflies to waterfowl.