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Timișoara

Timișoara

Timișoara, officially the Municipality of Timișoara, is the capital city of Timiș County, Banat, and the main economic, social and cultural center in western Romania.

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Located on the Bega River, Timișoara is considered the informal capital city of the historical Banat region. From 1848 to 1860 it was the capital of the Serbian Vojvodina and the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Temeschwar. With 250,849 inhabitants at the 2021 census, Timișoara is the country's fifth most populous city. It is home to around 400,000 inhabitants in its metropolitan area, while the Timișoara–Arad metropolis concentrates more than 70% of the population of Timiș and Arad counties. Timișoara is a multicultural city, home to 21 ethnic groups and 18 religious denominations. Historically, the most numerous were the Swabian Germans, Jews and Hungarians, who still make up 6% of the population in Timișoara.

Get in

Getting to Timișoara

  1. 01
    Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport
  2. 02
    Timișoara North
  3. 03
    Timișoara East
See

Worth seeing

Timișoara is known in Romania as the City of Parks.

  1. 01
    Botanical Park
  2. 02
    Rose Park
  3. 03
    Central Park
  4. 04
    Children's Park
  5. 05
    Zoo
  6. 06
    Victory Square

    It's the symbol of the Romanian revolution.

Do

Things to do

Enjoy nice coffee products in Piața Unirii (Union Square) or Piața Victoriei (Victory Square). Taste the week-end nightlife by dancing all night long at Club The Note or D'Arc, or their summer locations, River Deck or D'Arc terrace on the shores of Bega Channel. Eat a great pizza or pasta at Da Toni, eat tasty Romanian food at Club XXI, don't miss the cocktails at River Deck or Club The Note.

  1. 01
    The Banat Philharmonic
  2. 02
    The National Theatre
  3. 03
    Sala 2

    This former stable was turned into a modern performance space by the National Theatre team.

  4. 04
    Centre Culturel Français
Eat

Where to eat

Because Timișoara was and still is a very cosmopolitan city, the local cuisine is influenced by Italian, Serbian, Hungarian, German, Turkish and Arabic cuisine. = =

  1. 01
    The Sandwich Factory

    Strada Emanoil Ungureanu 8.

  2. 02
    Suppa Bar

    Strada Florimund Mercy 7.

  3. 03
    Lera's Bistro

    Intrare pe, Strada Gheorghe Lazar, Strada Mărășești Nr.

  4. 04
    Restaurant Karađorđe

    Piața Unirii 4.

  5. 05
    Radha Cuisine

    Strada Emanoil Ungureanu 13.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.