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Cluj-Napoca (/ ˈkluːʒnæˌpoʊkə / KLOOZH-na-POH-kə; Romanian: [ˈkluʒ naˈpoka] ⓘ), or simply Cluj (Hungarian: Kolozsvár [ˈkoloʒvaːr] ⓘ, German: Klausenburg), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country [5] and the seat of Cluj County.
The history of Cluj-Napoca covers the time from the Roman conquest of Dacia, when a Roman settlement named Napoca existed on the location of the later city, through the founding of Cluj and its flourishing as the main cultural and religious center in the historical province of Transylvania, until its modern existence as a city, the seat of Cluj County in north-western Romania.
The main peaks of the Apuseni Mountains, with Bihorul on the right Trascău Mountains The Transylvanian Western Carpathians (Apuseni Mountains - the top ones). The Apuseni Mountains (Romanian: Munții Apuseni, lit. transl. 'Western Mountains'; Hungarian: Erdélyi-középhegység, transl. 'Transylvanian Mountains') is a mountain range in Transylvania, Romania, which belongs to the Western ...
Coordinates: 46.7692686°N 23.5865425°E. The Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania (Romanian: Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei; Hungarian: Erdélyi néprajzi múzeum) is situated in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. With a history of almost 100 years, the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania is one of the first and greatest of its kind in Romania.
The Museum of Cluj-Napoca or National Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, is an art museum housed in an important eighteenth-century Baroque building, the Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace, designed by German architect Johann Eberhard Blaumann. The museum possesses a very valuable collection of Romanian and European art: paintings, graphics and decorative art ...
Timeline of Cluj-Napoca Roman Napoca on Tabula Peutingeriana Ruins of Napoca City coat of arms (starting 1377) Cluj in 1617 by Joris Hoefnagel Cluj Bridge Gate in 1860 Central Cluj in 1930 St. Michael's Church and Matthias Corvinus Monument in 2012 Cluj Arena in 2012 The following detailed sequence of events covers the timeline of Cluj-Napoca , a city in Transylvania, Romania . Cluj-Napoca ...
Central Park is a large public, urban park in central Cluj-Napoca.It was founded in the 19th century and it located on the southern shore of Someşul Mic River.The Park is now home to the University of Arts and Design and to the Chemistry Faculty of the Babeş-Bolyai University.
Scărișoara Cave. Scărișoara Cave (Romanian: Peștera Scărișoara, Hungarian: Aranyosfői-jégbarlang), is one of the biggest ice caves in the Apuseni Mountains of Romania, in the western part of the Romanian Carpathians. [1] It is considered a show cave and one of the natural wonders of Romania. It has also been described as a glacier cave.