Three hours · Our reception recommends
The route begins directly in Union Square, with the most spectacular building of all: the Black Eagle. You then return gently towards the hotel, façade by façade, past the Zion Synagogue, Ferdinand Square and Republicii Street. Most buildings are admired from outside; the Darvas–La Roche House is well worth visiting inside.
A morning or an afternoon. About an hour on foot.
Your starting point
A morning or an afternoon. About an hour on foot.
1About 20 minutes on foot
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.
2Just steps away
On the corner of Union Square: a geometric Viennese façade, two-tone ceramic tiles and original wrought iron on the balconies.
3Just steps away
Deutsch K. Ignác’s former glassware shop: its flowered Secession pediment has survived untouched.
4About 5 minutes on foot
On the banks of the Crișul Repede, the 16-windowed dome of the Zion Synagogue makes one of the loveliest views in the city.
5About 9 minutes on foot
Romania’s first Art Nouveau museum, housed in a villa from 1909, presents the interior of a bourgeois home of the Belle Époque.
6About 4 minutes on foot
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.
7Just steps away
Details worth noting: the corner tower with its onion dome, the balustrades with butterflies and the raven holding a ring in its beak.
8About 5 minutes on foot
The round corner tower and the folk-art motifs make the Stern Palace a façade not to be missed on Republicii Street.
9Just steps away
On the site of the old Apollo inn; from 1913, it housed the city’s first central heating system.
About 15 minutes on foot
You return to the hotel, where the pool and SPA await you.
A coffee in the Black Eagle passage or on Republicii Street.
Time permitting, also along the way: Union Square, St Ladislaus Church, Visit Oradea Tourist Information Centre, Crișul Repede Riverside, Rimanóczy Hotel and Baths, “Iosif Vulcan” Memorial Museum, Queen Marie Theatre, Ferdinand Square
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.
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