Our reception recommends
Romania's Art Nouveau capital begins just a few minutes from the hotel. Tell us how many days you will spend in the city and what interests you, and we will recommend the right route: on the map and, if you wish, step by step on your phone.
Your first stop is close at hand: Roman Catholic Basilica, the largest Baroque church in Romania, is 6 minutes from the hotel.
Your walk
Answer four questions and we will suggest the right walk for you, day by day, including meal breaks and the return to the hotel.
Your recommended walk will appear here as soon as you have made your choice.
Recommended walks
Every walk begins at the hotel entrance and ends here as well. As you scroll, the map guides you from stop to stop.
Union Square, the Secession palaces, the Fortress and the Crișul Repede riverside: the essence of the city in a single day.
Highlights: Union Square, Black Eagle Palace and Church with the Moon.
The first day among Secession façades, the second through the Baroque, at the Fortress and up on the hill at sunset.
Highlights: Union Square, Black Eagle Palace and Church with the Moon.
Two days devoted to the city and one to relaxing at the thermal waters near Oradea.
Highlights: Union Square, Black Eagle Palace and Church with the Moon.
Oradea at leisure, a day at the thermal waters, another in the caves of the Apuseni Mountains and, for a longer stay, a day devoted to children.
Highlights: Union Square, Black Eagle Palace and Church with the Moon.
Oradea’s most beautiful Secession façades, from the Black Eagle Palace to the Apollo Palace.
Highlights: Black Eagle Palace, Moskovits Adolf and Sons Palace and Deutsch K. Ignác Glassware Shop.
The Basilica, Canons’ Row and the Baroque Palace: the largest Baroque ensemble in Romania, a few minutes from the hotel.
Highlights: Roman Catholic Basilica, Canons’ Row and Baroque Palace.
The giant hammers in the City Hall Tower, the church that shows the phases of the Moon, and the walls of the Fortress.
Highlights: City Hall Tower, Church with the Moon and Union Square.
Sunset from Ciuperca Hill, the Crișul Repede riverside, Union Square lit up, and dinner on a pedestrian street.
Highlights: Ciuperca Hill (viewpoint), Crișul Repede Riverside and Union Square.
The lake with its thermal water lilies, Băile 1 Mai and Băile Felix, about ten kilometres from the hotel.
Highlights: Pețea Stream Reserve (thermal water lily lake), Băile 1 Mai and Băile Felix.
Places of interest
The places are listed by distance from the hotel. For opening hours and tickets, each links to its official website; our reception is also at your disposal.
5 minutes from the hotel
Baroque Palace
Legend has it that it has 365 windows; in reality, it has 282.
Photo: Andymxm, CC BY-SA 4.0
6 minutes from the hotel
Canons’ Row
A corridor of 57 Baroque arches, more than 250 metres long: the most peaceful walk in the city.
Photo: MOs810, CC BY-SA 4.0
6 minutes from the hotel
Roman Catholic Basilica
The largest Baroque church in Romania, a few minutes from the hotel. The statue of Saint Ladislaus keeps watch in front of it.
Photo: MOs810, CC BY-SA 4.0
9 minutes from the hotel
Okányi-Schwartz Villa (Chamber of Commerce)
The villa designed by Komor and Jakab in 1912, today home to the Chamber of Commerce.
Photo: ArnoldPlaton, CC BY-SA 3.0
10 minutes from the hotel
Roman Catholic Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit
The parish church of the Olosig district was built in 1903–1905 to designs by Kálmán Rimanóczy Jr.
Photo: MOs810, CC BY-SA 4.0
15 minutes from the hotel
Moskovits Miksa Palace
Built in 1904–1905 to designs by Kálmán Rimanóczy Jr. in the style of the Munich Secession, the palace was…
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY 4.0
15 minutes from the hotel
Apollo Palace
On the site of the old Apollo inn; from 1913, it housed the city’s first central heating system.
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY 4.0
15 minutes from the hotel
Stern Palace
The round corner tower and the folk-art motifs make the Stern Palace a façade not to be missed on Republicii Street.
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY 4.0
15 minutes from the hotel
Rimanóczy Jr. Palace (Orthodox Bishopric)
The former residence of the architect Kálmán Rimanóczy Jr., probably built around 1903, in an eclectic style…
Photo: ArnoldPlaton, CC BY-SA 3.0 ro
15 minutes from the hotel
Adorján Houses
The first buildings in Oradea by the architects Marcell Komor and Dezső Jakab, with Ferenc Sztarill as…
Photo: Szilas, CC BY 4.0
15 minutes from the hotel
“Ady Endre” Memorial Museum
The museum is housed in the former summer pavilion of the Müller confectionery in Traian Park, where the poet Ady Endre was a frequent guest.
Photo: Mister No, CC BY 3.0
15 minutes from the hotel
Republicii Street (the corso)
The city’s corso: along its pedestrian stretch, the Stern, Apollo and Moskovits Miksa palaces line up among cafés and terraces.
Photo: Wikizoli, CC BY-SA 3.0 ro
20 minutes from the hotel
Queen Marie Theatre
The theatre designed by the Viennese architects Fellner & Helmer dominates Ferdinand Square; an evening performance concludes the day in style.
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY 4.0
20 minutes from the hotel
Hotel Astoria (Sztarill Palace)
It was here, in the former EMKE café, that Ady Endre met Léda, and here that the literary society “A Holnap” was born in 1908.
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0
20 minutes from the hotel
“Aurel Lazăr” Memorial Museum
The Lazăr family house, built at the end of the 19th century, is where, on 12 October 1918, the Declaration…
Photo: ArnoldPlaton, CC BY-SA 3.0
20 minutes from the hotel
Ferdinand Square
The little triangular square beside the theatre, framed by buildings from around 1900.
Photo: Szilas, CC BY 4.0
20 minutes from the hotel
Poynár House
Details worth noting: the corner tower with its onion dome, the balustrades with butterflies and the raven holding a ring in its beak.
Photo: Edelheid Amschel, CC BY-SA 4.0
20 minutes from the hotel
Rimanóczy Hotel and Baths
The complex of hotel, café, tub baths and steam baths was built by the architect Kálmán Rimanóczy Sr.: the…
Photo: ArnoldPlaton, CC BY-SA 3.0
20 minutes from the hotel
City Hall Tower
The tower, almost 50 metres high, offers three panoramic levels over the historic centre, while the clock’s giant hammers strike every quarter of an hour.
Photo: Dan Dragos, CC BY-SA 3.0
20 minutes from the hotel
Crișul Repede Riverside
The promenade along the Crișul Repede, with terraces and the Intellectuals’ footbridge: the most beautiful route between the squares.
Photo: Szilas, CC BY 4.0
20 minutes from the hotel
Darvas–La Roche House (Art Nouveau Museum)
Romania’s first Art Nouveau museum, housed in a villa from 1909, presents the interior of a bourgeois home of the Belle Époque.
Photo: Szilas, CC BY 4.0
20 minutes from the hotel
St Ladislaus Church
One of the oldest churches in the city, built between around 1720 and 1741, it served for a time as the episcopal cathedral.
Photo: Elekes Andor, CC BY-SA 4.0
20 minutes from the hotel
City Hall Palace
The City Hall Palace, with the tower you can see from the Crișul Repede riverside.
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0
20 minutes from the hotel
Museum of Jewish History in Oradea
The present synagogue building was erected in 1926 by the builder Béla Weimann to designs by the architect…
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0
20 minutes from the hotel
Black Eagle Palace
The most monumental Secession building in the city. We recommend stepping into the glass-roofed arcade to admire the stained-glass window with the black eagle.
Photo: Paralelogram, CC BY-SA 4.0
20 minutes from the hotel
“Iosif Vulcan” Memorial Museum
The museum occupies the house where Iosif Vulcan lived between 1896 and 1906, which was also the editorial…
Photo: ArnoldPlaton, CC BY-SA 3.0
20 minutes from the hotel
Union Square
This is where picture-postcard Oradea begins: City Hall with its tower, the Black Eagle Palace, the bishop’s palace and three historic churches, all around the same square.
Photo: Elekes Andor, CC BY-SA 4.0
20 minutes from the hotel
Moskovits Adolf and Sons Palace
On the corner of Union Square: a geometric Viennese façade, two-tone ceramic tiles and original wrought iron on the balconies.
Photo: ArnoldPlaton, CC BY-SA 3.0
20 minutes from the hotel
Kováts House
A neoclassical building from the early 19th century that took on its present appearance in 1836, after a fire.
Photo: ArnoldPlaton, CC BY-SA 4.0
25 minutes from the hotel
Deutsch K. Ignác Glassware Shop
Deutsch K. Ignác’s former glassware shop: its flowered Secession pediment has survived untouched.
Photo: MOs810, CC BY-SA 4.0
25 minutes from the hotel
Greek Catholic Bishop’s Palace
The eclectic palace on Union Square where King Ferdinand and Queen Marie stayed in 1919.
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0
25 minutes from the hotel
Zion Neolog Synagogue
On the banks of the Crișul Repede, the 16-windowed dome of the Zion Synagogue makes one of the loveliest views in the city.
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0
25 minutes from the hotel
Church with the Moon
On the tower, a sphere one metre in diameter turns to show the phases of the Moon, driven by a mechanism installed in 1793.
Photo: MariBo99, CC BY-SA 4.0
25 minutes from the hotel
St Nicholas Greek Catholic Cathedral
The cathedral of the Greek Catholic Eparchy was built in 1800–1810, begun by Bishop Ignațiu Darabant and…
Photo: Insidercam, CC BY-SA 4.0
25 minutes from the hotel
Füchsl Palace
The two-storey palace was built between September 1902 and April 1903 for the Füchsl brothers, to designs by…
Photo: Edelheid Amschel, CC BY-SA 4.0
25 minutes from the hotel
1 Decembrie Park
The park occupies the site of the former Great Market Square (Nagyvásár), one of the city’s two commercial centres in the early 20th century.
Photo: MOs810, CC BY-SA 4.0
25 minutes from the hotel
“Iuliu Maniu” Greek Catholic High School
The building was erected in 1925 in the Neo-Romanian style, on the initiative of Bishop Traian Valeriu Frențiu.
Photo: ArnoldPlaton, CC BY-SA 3.0 ro
25 minutes from the hotel
Ciuperca Hill (viewpoint)
The hill opens onto a panorama of the entire city; in the evening, the lights come on at your feet.
Photo: TheVanRose, CC BY-SA 3.0
25 minutes from the hotel
Great Orthodox Synagogue
Built in 1890 by the engineer Ferenc Knapp to plans by the architect Nándor Bach, this eclectic synagogue…
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0
30 minutes from the hotel
Oradea City Museum (in the Fortress)
The museum in the Fortress has galleries designed with children in mind: an hour here complements the walk along the walls.
Photo: Szilas, CC BY 4.0
30 minutes from the hotel
Oradea Fortress
One of the few bastion fortresses in Romania, with a pentagon-shaped princely palace. We recommend a stroll along the walls and a visit to the inner courtyard.
Photo: Szilas, CC BY 4.0
30 minutes from the hotel
Freemasons’ Temple
The Masonic lodge was designed in 1901 by the Budapest architects Zoltán Bálint and Lajos Jámbor, and its…
Photo: Chainwit., CC BY 4.0
30 minutes from the hotel
Țării Crișurilor Museum
The region’s principal museum, with collections of archaeology, history and art, housed in a former cadet school.
Photo: Ghișa Ștefania-Maria, CC BY-SA 4.0
40 minutes from the hotel
Oradea Zoo
The modernised zoo, with a playground and century-old trees above its paths.
Photo: Emőke Dénes, CC BY-SA 4.0
20 minutes away by car
Băile Felix
Romania’s largest spa resort with healing waters, just a few kilometres from the hotel.
Photo: Psiaii, CC BY-SA 4.0
about 2 hours away by car
Meziad Cave
One of the first caves opened to visitors in Romania, with galleries on several levels.
Photo: Nicu Farcaș, CC BY-SA 4.0
about 2 hours away by car
Bears’ Cave
Discovered only in 1975, with cave bear fossils and a temperature of around 10 degrees all year round; we recommend bringing a warm layer.
Photo: Zátonyi Sándor, (ifj.) Fizped, CC BY 3.0
Museum opening hours, tickets and transport to the spa resorts change frequently, so we have not included them here. We are at your disposal around the clock: we will check the details for you, order a taxi and provide you with a map.
Map: OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
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