The best city hikes and walks around Forest Hoia

The Tailors' Bastion is the only fortification tower from the old citadel that has survived completely to this day. The bastion was financed by the Cluj Tailors' Guild, which was also responsible for the city's defense at this point. The bastion forms the southeast corner of the medieval fortress, which was built starting in the 15th century (it is first mentioned in 1475). Between 1627 and 1629, the bastion was rebuilt according to the plans of the Italian architect Giacomo Resti after the gunpowder stored in the tower exploded as a result of a lightning strike. This is how it acquired its present form. To the north, a section of the stone wall with battlements and the guard route on the wall still survives.

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-Napoca City Hall was built at the end of the 19th century according to the plans of Ignác Alpár. With its Viennese Baroque-style façade and corner bell tower with clock, the building was initially the seat of the Royal Hungarian government of the Kolozs region (Cluj-Napoca is called Kolozsvár in Hungarian). With around 325,000 inhabitants, Cluj-Napoca is the second largest city in Romania and the largest city in Transylvania.

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.