Oradea Things to Do

Oradea este impinzita de o sumedenie de vile construite la finele secolului 19 si inceput de secol 20. Multe din ele sint adevarate bijuterii arhitectonice. Vilele oradene sint altfel cunoscute si sub denumirea de palat sau casa (ca sinonim pentru "resedinta")
Un exemplu este Casa Lévay, construita intre anii 1892 si 1894 in stil eclectic dupa planurile arhitectului Hanzlián János. Asa cum bine a observat Peter I. Zoltan, este posibil ca arhitectul sa fi tinut seama de hotelul Rimanóczy din vecinatate terminat cu doar doi ani mai inainte.

Every thursday the philharmonic gives an performance. Usually it starts at 19.00 hours. The performances are very good and i've attended several so far. Often, though not always, they have guest performeers. Tickets costs 90.000 lei (around 3 euro) for the normal seats. 130.000 (around 5 euro) for the balcony ones.

A colection of photos about "STAINED - GLASS WINDOWS - 1900" located in buildings in Oradea, after you saw the photos you can visit the places ...the web page is here:
http://www.cimec.ro/Monumente/Vitralii/Vitr_Eng.htm
- this 1 page is in English, but the rest of the pages are in Romanian, but you don't need Romanian for the photos...
- the home page is here:
http://www.cimec.ro/Monumente/Vitralii/Home.htm

The Roman-Catholic Cathedral, the largest baroque building in Romania, built between 1752-1780, having an imposing organ.
My catholic weding ceremony was inside this church. I am divorced now and single. Are there anybody (only girls) interested?

- You can go to the theater or to the Philharmonics
- You can go to the Theatre to see a play if you know Hungarian or Romanian
- Or you can go to the Philharmonics to listen some classic music; you don't need Hungarian or Romanian for that
- The ticket prices are unbelievable cheap but the performances are good
- The Philharmonics is near the Theater

State Theatre (1900); displays the neoclassic style on the outside and the baroque style on the inside. In the Ferdinand Square ( Bémer Square) you will find the most famous restaurants like: Astoria(Emke) , Transilvania(), Oradea (Royal), .... and there are a lot of new reastaurants in the area like: Kellys Irish Pub, Faustozo, ,,,,,,

- The biggest and the most important square in Oradea (Nagyvarad)

- There are 3 churches in this square; two of them are very famous:
1 - The Moon Church: it is an orthodox church that has something like a watch but it shoes the Moon positions and not the time
2- The Other one is the Szent Laszlo church, one of the oldest catholic churches in Oradea

- The City Hall is here
- The Black Eagle Palace is here (you must see these)
- The Biggest Synagogue is near here

1 - Episcopal Palace / Museum of the Cris Rivers County :
Museum of the Cris Rivers County :
is a baroque palace built between 1762-1777 by the Austrian architect F.A.Hillebrandt; its destination was as Roman-Catholic Episcopal Palace and has as many windows as the year days, 365(one for each day of the year), and 120 rooms. The Museum was inspired by the Belvedere Palace in Vienna; in 1771 it hosted the Austrian Empress Maria Teresa and her son Joseph the 2nd. The Museum have sections of history, Romanian and world fine arts, ethnography and natural sciences; especially interesting collections of painted eggs, watches and clocks, pipes, and silvery.

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2 - The Roman-Catholic Cathedral (1750-1779) is the third biggest church in Romania and the largest one in the baroque style; interior and exterior decorations made of Carrara marble; beautiful murals, stained-glass windows and organon.