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1756. LMI code. TM-III-m-A-06306. The St. Mary and St. John of Nepomuk Monument, often shortened as Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, is a Romanian Baroque monument in Timișoara 's Liberty Square. It is one of the two plague columns built in Timișoara after the Great Plague of 1738; the other is located in the neighboring Union Square.
Plague Column, Timișoara. / 45.75778°N 21.22889°E / 45.75778; 21.22889. Plague Column ( Romanian: Coloana Ciumei; German: Pestsäule ), also known as Holy Trinity Monument, is a Baroque monument in Timișoara 's Union Square. It was placed in the central square of the city, then known as Domplatz, in 1740 as an ex voto of chamber ...
The first statue was donated to Bucharest on the 1800th anniversary of the conquest of Dacia and the 25th anniversary of the reign of Carol I as king of Romania. The other three arrived in Cluj and Chișinău in 1921 and in Timișoara in 1926. It was the first monument unveiled in Timișoara after the creation of Greater Romania. [4]
Virgin Mary Monument is located in Timișoara 's St. Mary Square and it has been there since 1906, when it was built on an older statue of Virgin Mary. The legend goes that György Dózsa has been executed there. The monument is a romanesque style canopy set on six pillars, under which lies the statue of Mary, carved in Carrara marble.
The St. George Cathedral ( Romanian: Catedrala Sf. Gheorghe ), colloquially known as the Roman Catholic Dome ( Romanian: Domul Romano-Catolic ), is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara and one of the city's landmarks. The cathedral is dedicated to St. George and was built between 1736 and 1774.
The Timișoara Chamber of Commerce was established in 1850 by decree of Emperor Franz Joseph I. [ 1] The first president of the institution was the businessman Ludwig von Bersuder. Initially, the Chamber of Commerce was based in the Lloyd Palace until it received its own building. It operated until 1949, when it was suspended by the communist ...
LMI code. TM-IV-m-A-06330. Fidelity Column, also known as Victory Monument, is a statue located in Heroes' Cemetery of Timișoara 's Lipovei district. [1] The statue was donated to Timișoara in 1853 by Emperor Franz Joseph I as a sign of his gratitude for the resistance shown during the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849.
Paolo Santini de Duccio. The Huniade Castle (Romanian: Castelul Huniade; Hungarian: Hunyadi-kastély; German: Schloss Hunyadi) is the oldest monument in Timișoara, Romania, built between 1443 and 1447 by John Hunyadi and Paolo Santini de Duccio over the old royal castle dating from the 14th century (built during the reign of Charles I Robert ...