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Bistrița also serves as a midway point for C&I, a transport service, and is a changing point for people traveling between Suceava, Satu Mare, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Sighișoara, Târgu Mureș, and Brașov. The nearest airport is Cluj-Napoca Airport, which is located 102 kilometres (63 miles) from Bistrița. Tourism
Braniștea, Bistrița-Năsăud. / 47.17278°N 24.06528°E / 47.17278; 24.06528. Braniștea ( Hungarian: Árpástó) is a commune in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Braniștea, Cireșoaia ( Magyardécse; German: Bellsdorf) and Măluț ( Omlásalja ).
Bistrița ( Romanian pronunciation: [ˈbistrit͡sa] ⓘ; also known as Bistrița Vâlceană) is a right tributary of the river Olt in Romania. [1] [2] It discharges into the Olt near Băbeni. [3] It starts in the Căpățânii Mountains, forming one of the narrowest gorges in Romania in addition to some beautiful caves.
Main façade, lateral view. The Piarist Church (Romanian: Biserica Piariștilor, also known as the Jesuit Church (Biserica Iezuiților) or the University Church (Biserica Universității); Hungarian: piarista templom), located at 5 Str. Universității, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was the first Roman Catholic church built in Transylvania after the Protestant ...
It is located in the western part of the county, at a distance of 30 km (19 mi) from the town of Năsăud and 36 km (22 mi) from the county seat, Bistrița; the city of Dej is 27 km (17 mi) to the west, in Cluj County. History Bethlen Castle. The town of Beclean is the ancestral seat of the Hungarian Bethlen family.
The St. Michael's Church ( Romanian: Biserica Sfântul Mihail, Hungarian: Szent Mihály-templom, German: Michaelskirche) is a Gothic-style Roman Catholic church in Cluj-Napoca. It is the second largest church (after the Biserica Neagră of Brașov) in the geographical region of Transylvania, Romania. The nave is 50 meters long and 24 meters ...
Calvaria Church ( Romanian: Biserica Romano-Catolică Calvaria de la Cluj-Mănăștur, Hungarian: Kolozsmonostori apátság) was built in the small village of Mănăștur near Cluj-Napoca (today a district of Cluj-Napoca). A small Benedictine abbey surrounded by defensive walls, Calvaria Church was built starting in the 9th-10th centuries.
After World War I, when Austria-Hungary broke up and Transylvania (including Cluj) joined Romania, a Romanian university was founded in 1920; it used the existing Central University Library (dedicated in the presence of the royal family and renamed the Library of King Ferdinand I University) and the Library of the Transylvanian Museum, still ...