History · Oradea
On local signs: Cetatea Oradea
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.
On the site of the fortress, King Ladislaus I built a fortified monastery at the end of the 11th century, and the fortress became one of the few bastioned fortresses in Romania. The princely palace, begun in 1619 by Gabriel Bethlen to designs by Giacomo Resti, was completed in 1650; the defensive moat could be filled with thermal water from the Peța stream.
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.
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.
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