Timisoara – The Big Tour is an extension of The Classic Tour. After visiting the old city center (for 2,5 – hours), we’ll visit the old neighborhoods of the city: Fabric, Elisabetin, Iosefin. Fabric (Germ. Fabrickstadt, Hun. Gyárkülváros) is the former industrial neighborhood of the city. Initially there were manufactures here, later industry. This neighborhood was one […]
The documented story of the Jewish Community of Timisoara starts 500 years ago in the Iberian Peninsula when the Sephardic Jewry was brutally expelled by the Spanish kings. A consistent part of those 100,000 Jewish expatriates settled onto the Ottoman territory of Greece, being quickly embraced by the sultans. However, several Sephardis families continuing their […]
In December 1989 the communist Romania could be considered as a mental-hospital where the lunatics were running the asylum and the “internees” were punished for their sanity. How did we get to have one of the most symbolic dictatorship regimes in the modern history? What and who are to be blamed for this tragic condition? […]
10% discount for booking 30 days in advance
This project organized by Timisoara City Tours tries to make The Timisoara’s Classic Tour more affordable for every tourist. The project tries also to set a scheduled tour on a daily basis. So, the 10 euros tour or Timisoara free tour?
To be honest, the free tours are not free, it’s just that they give you the chance to pay just how much you want, because usually everybody tips at least 5-10 euros. This one can be really free, if you don’t like the tour. You can leave the tour anytime, without paying anything, if you don’t like the tour.
In order to run this tour for 10 euros a person, we need to find a minimum of 4 persons to attend the tour.
What do you have to do:
Check the list here for available dates of the tour;
Send a short email on ludovic@timisoaracitytours.com to confirm your presence (don’t forget to mention: the date, if you are coming alone or with your friends, a telephone no.);
Recheck the list later in order to see if the minimum no. of persons was reached.
Book in advance
Booking in advance will give us the time to form the groups. Is much easier forming a group and finding availability if people book in advance. Sometimes different tourists are asking about different tours just for the next day. For some you’ll find available guides but not for all. Booking in advance is best for everybody.
Theresia Bastion (Romanian: Bastionul Theresia), named after the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, is the largest preserved piece of defensive wall of the Austrian-Hungarian fortress of Timișoara. It covers about 1.7 hectares of the city center. It was built between 1732–1734.
Today it is used as a passage, but it also houses commercial spaces, restaurants, bars, a disco and a library, and two permanent exhibitions of the Museum of Banat, the Information and Communications Technology “Violin – a passion for life”, and the Ethnography Museum Village. The bastion is included on the list of historical monuments in the Timiș County.
After the conquest of Timișoara by the Habsburgs in 1716, it was realized that the old fortifications could not cope with new fighting techniques, therefore it was decided to rebuild the whole city in Pagan style (a fortress-stronghold of a stellar shape). It had an area larger than the Ottoman medieval fortress. The city was surrounded by three stellar belts that could be filled with water. Access was via three gates: of Vienna, Petrovaradin and Transylvania (completely demolished in 1891). The nine bastions of the fortress were named after kings and queens or generals. In the second half of the 19th century, the majority of the city walls was demolished to make room for the rapidly expanding city.
Source: Wikipedia
The St. George’s Cathedral, Timișoara or The Dome is located in Timișoara, Romania, at Piața Unirii, in the centre of town.
It is one of the most valuable buildings of Baroque architecture in Timișoara and the Banat. The interior is luxurious and expressive, with Rococo elements created by painters and sculptors of Vienna. The acoustic is great, many organs concerts being organized here.
The cathedral’s foundation stone was laid on 6 August 1736. It was designed by Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach from Vienna, then Hans Lechner continued the building from 1750. It was finished by two architects from Timișoara, Johann Theodor Kostka and Carl Alexander Steinlein in 1774. The Cathedral was built in Austrian baroque style and it was dedicated to Saint George, the diocese’s Patron Saint. The picture located at the high altar was painted by Michelangelo Unterberger, director of the fine arts academy of Vienna, illustrating the Patron Saint. The side altars were painted by Johann Nepomuk Schöpf in 1772. The precious oil-lamps were produced by Josef Moser. The organ was made by Leopold Wegenstein, and it provides an impressive experience for the ears. The cathedral’s bells were renewed in Germany in 1998.
Is a Romanian Orthodox church in Timișoara, in the historical Banat region, in western Romania. The cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Timișoara and Metropolis of Banat. It is dedicated to the Three Holy Hierarchs, Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom.
Built on an area of 1,542 m2 (16,600 sq ft), it has 11 towers, of which the central and the highest has a height of 90.5 meters. The Metropolitan Cathedral is listed in the National Register of Historic Monuments.
The cathedral was raised between 1936 and 1941. The building’s style (architect Ioan Traianescu) is Neo-Moldavian style, based on Romanian Orthodox, late Renaissance, Ottoman, and Byzantine architecture elements, such as niches under the eaves, ribbed star vaulting in the interior, and lacquered discs in a variety of colors.
The church’s interior and exterior paintings were created by the painter Anastase Demian.[3] The difficult period that followed the structure’s completion, that of Romania during World War II, prevented the paintings from being finished with the building. Demian’s work went on for many years after World War II.
Timișoara Orthodox Cathedral is home to many historic and artistic religious objects, including many vintage Romanian icon paintings.
There is also a collection of early writings in Romanian. Examples include the 1648 Noul Testament de la Bălgrad (“The New Testament of Bălgrad”) and the 1643 Cazania lui Varlaam (“The Homiliary of Metropolitan Varlaam”).
Source: Wikipedia
Across the town centre is the picturesque Habsburg-era Piata Unirii, so-named for the imposing sight of the Romano-Catholic and Serbian Orthodox Cathedrals facing each other. Historic pastel-hued buildings line the square. During the 18th century, this was the city’s commercial centre and the venue for numerous military processions and religious ceremonies.
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