Easy hikes and walks around Forest Hoia

Unity Square (Piața Unirii) is the heart of Cluj-Napoca. At 220 by 160 metres, it is one of the largest urban squares in the country. It is dominated by a number of historic buildings such as St. Michael's Church or Banffy Palace, as well as the Matthias Corvinus Monument in its centre. There are paid parking spaces and public toilets here. The remains of Roman buildings (Vestigii romane) can be seen under a glass cover.

The Cluj Arena was built in 2011 on the site of the former Ion Moina Stadium. Its main user is the football club FC Universitatea Cluj 1919. Thanks to the athletics track, the stadium can also be used for Olympic competitions or concerts such as the "Untold Festival". The stadium consists of two stands and two grass areas and has a capacity of 30,335 seats, most of which are covered.

The "Casa Matei Corvin" is the birthplace of the future Hungarian king. It is the oldest secular building in the city, built in the 15th century in the Gothic style as a small guesthouse. Matthias Corvinus ("the Raven") was born here on February 23, 1443. He ascended the Hungarian throne in 1458 at the age of fourteen. In gratitude for the hospitality that the house owner Jakab Méhffi had once shown his heavily pregnant mother, King Matthias decreed in 1467 that Méhffi and all his descendants were exempt from all taxes and duties. Over the course of its history, the house served as a prison, hospital and museum. Today it houses an institute for fine arts at the local art and design college.

Since 1968, the Carolina Obelisk has stood in the middle of Museum Square in front of the Franciscan Church, after it was moved here from Unirii Square. Abraham Cürös and Samuel Nagy created this oldest secular monument in the city. The occasion was the visit of the Austro-Hungarian imperial couple Franz I and his fourth wife Karoline Auguste. They had travelled to Klausenberg in 1917 to calm the waves that the city had suffered during the famines caused by the Napoleonic Wars. However, the emperor and his wife did not get to see the obelisk, whose corners are accentuated by four eagles with laurel leaves. It was not completed until much later and inaugurated in 1831.

From Unirii Square, Strada Matei Corvin leads to the birthplace of this former Hungarian king. The cobbled street is flanked by restaurants and pubs that, when the weather is nice, have tables set up outside for their guests and attract them with elaborate lighting from hundreds of light bulbs.

The building known as the Petrechevich-Horvath House has housed the National Museum of Transylvanian History since 1937, the successor to the first museum association in Transylvania, the Ardeeab Nzsezn Society founded in 1872. It is a museum of history and archaeology. The collections are arranged chronologically and give the visitor a good insight into historical development. The museum has objects from prehistory, the Dacian Middle Ages in Transylvania, the Roman period in Dacia, the Middle Ages and the modern era.

Since the beginning of the 19th century, the Central Park on the south bank of the Someșul Mic has been a popular meeting place. Its history begins in 1827, when the Jóltevö Asszonyi Egyesület organization leased the undeveloped land to create a recreational area for citizens. The park was opened to the public in the early 1830s and was originally called the People's Garden. Today, the Central Park is one of the most important green spaces in the city center.

On June 14, 1874, a summer theater was opened as part of the Central Park. The building is now the seat of the Hungarian State Theater and the Hungarian State Opera. On November 11, 1792, the first Hungarian theater group was founded in Cluj. The venue of the oldest permanent Hungarian ensemble moved several times until it finally found its permanent home on the edge of the Central Park. A large part of the performances in Hungarian can be followed by the Romanian audience with dubbing.