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Cluj-Napoca in County Cluj
 
 County Cluj is in the Transilvania region

Cluj-Napoca in County Cluj

Cluj-Napoca, as capital of Transylvania, is one of the most visited cities in Romania.

The city is very pleasant and is certainly a great experience for those who want to see urban Transylvanian life at its best.
Along with fine dining, excellent cultural activities, a wonderful historical legacy and a great atmosphere, the city will certainly not disappoint those who add it to their travel itinerary.
What's more is the fact that Cluj (as it's called for short) is so easy to access and get around.

Cluj-Napoca as the seat of County Cluj, is one of the most important academic, cultural and industrial centres in Romania.

The city is located in northwestern Romania, and is approximately 330 km northwest of Bucharest, in the Someşul Mic valley. The name Cluj comes from "Castrum Clus", first used in the 12th century to designate this medieval citadel.

Cluj-Napoca

The Catholic Church spire dominates this view

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Cluj Sights

You should see Matthias Corvinus' mounted statue and the old St. Michael's Church in the Union Square - right in the middle of the city.

The area around the Union Square is a must see for the visitor, with the Teleki and Banffy Palaces (the former now houses the National Art Museum and a splendid summer terrace), the Franciscan Monastery, the first Unitarian Church in the world, the Piarist Churches, the Mirror Street (a unique architectural accomplishment dating back to the late 1800s) and Matthias Corvinus' place of birth, a former 15th Century hotel now home to the Visual Arts Academy.

Smaller streets around the Square can take you into splendid inner courts, old houses and isolated Churches.

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The Tailors' Bastion and the corresponding section of the medieval wall is very well preserved, South-East of the Union Square.

The Museum Square, a 2 minute walk from the Union Square, is home to the Franciscan Monastery.

The monastery is a combination of baroque and gothic architecture dating back to the 14th Century.  The Transylvanian History Museum and the old Obelisk of the City, offered to the City as acknowledgement of its statute by the Austrian Emperor Franz Ferdinand in the 19th Century. You can have a nice coffee right by the Obelisk, as during daytime the surrounding clubs and cafes move out of their inside locations into cool, relaxing terraces.  

The University Round-Up

Cluj gathers some of the nation's best museologists in a series of musuems with collections and exhibits second only to those in the national capital, Bucharest.

The Babeş-Bolyai University buildings are actually located all over Cluj, and maintains several different dormitories for students as well such as the Haşdeu complex.
The iconic and beautiful Lucian Blaga University Library is located in the city centre. As the largest university in Romania it's 50,000 students attend in Cluj and 17 other cities across Transylvania in 98 specialisations in Romanian, 52 in Hungarian, 13 in German, and 4 in English.
The ethnic Romanian researcher and medical man Victor Babeş and the Hungarian mathematician Jįnos Bolyai, both Transylvanians give the university it's modern name.

Mollusks and More at the Cluj-Napoca Zoological Museum at the Babes-Bolyai UniversityThe Zoological Museum

One of the more impressive and surprising collections amongst the Babeş-Bolyai University museums, the zoological museum in Cluj is a lot older than you might think!

Collection across the globe started for this museum as early as 1818, when the Romanian University was founded at Cluj, with the Zoological Museum dedicated in 1859.   The Romanian Trans-African Expedition in 1971 added significantly to the museum's specimen count. 
Now nearly 200 years later, this unique zoological museum hosts almost a million specimens in its collection, across the seven public rooms of the main exhibition, its scientific research collection, and the museum reserves.

In a constant state of rehabilitation and renewal, you can see newer dioramas displaying animals in their natural habitats, and all the dioramas being constantly updated.

The museum serves both the students of the university, and the wider community as well with it's interesting and informative museum panels, describing the more fascinating elements of the animal kingdom.
In addition to the actual items on display, you really must admire the beautiful craftsmanship and quality of woods used in the actual cabinets and display structures, many of which date from 50 years ago or more, and all custom-designed to display their contents expertly and in the best light.

Downstairs in the Biology Building, 9am - 3pm; Sat 10am - 2pm, +40 (264) 595 739 (x121)

   
   
 

The University Museum

This museum for the most part outlines the history of the Babeş-Bolyai University, as well as over 420 years of higher education in general in Cluj, since the Jesuits set up their first College in Cluj.

 With key exhibits on famous students and teachers, some of the exhibits show highlights of Transylvanian education through the decades. With over 750 original items, all the trappings of university life is represented.
Of somewhat wider interest, the University Museum also highlights the lifetime contributions of several of Transylania's more notable intellectuals including Lucian Blaga, Emil Racoviţă, Augustin Maior, Hermann Oberth and many others.
The collection stretches across five rooms containing photos, prints, and some rather beautiful interbellum exhibits showing academic life in it's heydey between the two world wars.
Plan on about an hour for taking it all in. In the main museum area on Mihail Kogalniceanu street. 1 RON, Weekdays 9:30am -1:30pm, contact Dr. Ana-Maria Stan on +40 (264) 591 471, or e-mail the doctor here 

A Gem of a Museum

If your planned day of hiking in the Apuşeni mountains, or walking around the town does become a bit rainy or overcast, the "Babeş-Bolyai" Mineralogical Museum is a fabulous way to spend the midday indoors!

Established just after the First World War, the museum inherited quite a few collections from the former Austrian owners of Transilvania (from the Franz Joszef university). Today's collection grew organically (or in organically, more accurately), through the 1920s and 1930s, as it became known as a world class museum for gemstones, minerals, as well as crystallographic and petrographic samples.

With over 25,000 pieces, the museum is laid out with a regional collection as well as a systematic collection, catalogued according to mineral species.

You can also delight in a few oddities, such as rare minerals, meteorites, some truly beautiful huge crystals and of quartz, gypsum, aragonite, and pyrites. Keep an eye out for a rotating collections which come in regularly from other mineralogical museums around Romania and Europe.

A glittering collection of over 3000 Romanian gemstones, and another few hundred of cut gems, brings the important local story of Romania's mineral heritage onto the centre stage.

A petrographic collection also brings in a thousand or so rock samples from all over Europe, and you'll have to walk quickly through the radioactive collection, which displays about 200 samples of the isotope rich rock.

Daily 11am - 4pm, closed Mondays and parts of August.  1.5 RON/adult 
+40 (264) 405 300 ext. 5121, Fax +40 (264) 591 906 or Email the Museum here 
   
   
 
See also our Dining in Cluj-Napoca and Night Life Pubs and Clubs sections below! And for more fun things to do in the area, see also County Cluj and the Transilvania region
 

Transportation

Getting to Cluj

Getting to Cluj-Napoca is easy due to its position and its status as a major Romanian city.
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Alitalia flies from Milan to Cluj, as well as to Timişoara and Bucharest, and from Rome to Bucharest
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By train

As with many other Romanian cities, train is the easiest way to reach Cluj Bucharest. There are train connections to most Romanian cities, including fast InterCity connections to Oradea, Arad, Timisoara, Brasov, Sighisoara, Ploiesti and Bucharest.

By plane

The International Someşeni Airport of Cluj-Napoca has direct flights between Cluj and:
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Car Rental in Cluj-Napoca

Rentals by Avis, Budget, Europcar and several local providers are available, as well as on request by Hertz.

Listed below are car rental locations in the Cluj-Napoca area.

Cluj Napoca Downtown, Hotel Victoria Str. 21 Decembrie, nr.54-56 in Cluj-Napoca
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  +1(800) 331 1212   +44 (844) 581 0147    +40 (264) 439403  
Cluj Napoca International Airport, 3400 in Cluj-Napoca
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  +1(800) 331 1212   +44 (844) 581 0147    +40 723 260105  
Cluj Napoca International Airport, Str. Traian Vuia, nr.149 in Cluj-Napoca
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  +1(800) 654 3131   +44 (8708) 44 88 44    +40 (364) 401722  FAX: +40 (364) 401722 
Cluj Napoca International Airport, Terminalul Sosiri Str. Traian Vuia, nr.149 in Cluj-Napoca
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  +1(800) 847 4389   +44 (1494) 751 540    +40 (264) 417881  FAX: +40 (264) 417881 
 

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Listed below are some local agents who can help you with bookings and organize local tours in the Cluj-Napoca area.

Z Tour Cluj1, Str. Petofi Sandor, nr.32, apt.3 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 597577  FAX: +40 (264) 597577 
Z Tour, B-dul Dorobantilor, nr. 61-63 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 592121  FAX: +40 (264) 597577 
Zip Youth & Student Travel, Str. Horea , nr.18-20, apt.3-4 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 434846  FAX: +40 (264) 434846 
Expert Turism, Str. IC Bratianu, nr. 4 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 590935  FAX: +40 (264) 590935 
Wens Tour, B-dul Eroilor, nr.10 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 590748  FAX: +40 (264) 590748 
Cfr Agency Cluj-Napoca, Str. Motilor, nr.1A in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 592730  FAX: +40 (264) 592733 
Viva Travel Cluj, Str. Petru Maior, nr.15-19, apt.55 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 591845  FAX: +40 (264) 591844 
Universal Turism Cluj, Str. I. Maniu, nr.45 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 597164  FAX: +40 (264) 597164 
Teo Line Tour, B-dul 21 Decembrie 1989, nr.44 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 418890  
Teen Trans Ro, Str. Dorobantilor, nr.90/40 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 411620  FAX: +40 (264) 412844 
Holidays Inc, Str. Iasilor, nr.12, apt.3 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (364) 110560  FAX: +40 (364) 110592 
Student Travel-Head Office Cluj, Str. Avram Iancu, nr.32/1 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 592885  FAX: +40 (264) 599610 
Shanti Travel Srl, Str. Maramuresului, nr. 153A in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 455498  
Sfara Tours, Str. Universitatii, nr. 8 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (262) 206223  FAX: +40 (264) 598760 
Rom Tur International-Cluj, P-ta Mihai Viteazu, nr. 9A, ap. 1 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 430629  FAX: +40 (264) 430341 
Ro Champion Tours, Str. Iuliu Maniu 40/17 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 450033  FAX: +40 (264) 433688 
Pro Travel Cluj, Str. Napoca, nr.2-4, apt.6 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 598863  FAX: +40 (264) 596506 
Paralela 45 Cluj1, Str. Tipografiei, nr.28 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (364) 401501  FAX: +40 (364) 401501 
Paralela 45 Cluj, B-dul Tipografiei, nr. 28 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 592961  FAX: +40 (2364) 401503 
Paloma Tours Cluj, Str. Roosvelt, nr.1, apt.5 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 430855  FAX: +40 (264) 430855 
Olimp Travel Cluj, Str. Observatorului, nr.82-86 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 596699  FAX: +40 (264) 595900 
Office Travel Cluj, Str. Piata Unirii, nr.12, apt.3 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 592492  FAX: +40 (264) 592492 
Ncounter Business Center, Str. Brancoveanu, nr.34 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 449554  
Mosaic Travel & Tourism, Str. Avram Iancu, nr.27 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 430403  FAX: +40 (264) 593648 
Mondo Tour & Travel Cluj, Str. Ploiesti, nr.13 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 590416  FAX: +40 (264) 590415 
Mercurius Tour Cluj, Str. Belgrad, nr.17 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 435693  FAX: +40 (264) 435693 
Marshal Turism (Cluj), B-dul Eroilor, nr.51 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 484945  FAX: +40 (264) 484945 
Madison Travel Cluj, Str. Ion Ratiu, nr.7 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 439382  
Linea Blu Travel, B-dul 21 Decembrie, nr.54-56 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 591037  FAX: +40 (264) 591037 
Kartago Tours (Cluj-Napoca), Str. Petru Maior, nr.5, apt.76 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 450730  FAX: +40 (264) 450732 
J'info Tours (Cluj-Napocă), Str. 21 Decembrie1989, nr.42 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 595267  FAX: +40 (264) 595267 
Iuve Travel Agency, B-dul 21 Decembrie 1989, nr.46 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 598242  FAX: +40 (264) 598242 
Idm Tour (Cluj), Piata Mihai Viteazu, nr.28 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 434738  FAX: +40 (264) 434739 
Happy Tour Cluj, B-dul N. Titulescu, nr.39 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 433933  FAX: +40 (264) 433933 
George Turism Cluj, Str. Baba Novac, nr.1/4 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 591194  FAX: +40 (264) 591172 
Eximtur (Sediiul Cluj), Str. A. Saguna, nr.34-36 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 433569  FAX: +40 (264) 433569 
Credo Turism Cluj, Str. Eroilor, nr.10/12 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 193020  FAX: +40 (264) 193020 
Cora Travel Cluj, Str. N. Tutulescu, nr.149, sc.1 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 462447  
Continental (Cluj), Str. Napoca, nr.1 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 591441  FAX: +40 (264) 593977 
Ciel Voyages, B-dul Eroilor, nr. 19/4 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 590964  FAX: +40 (264) 590966 
Calibra Cluj, Piata Unirii, nr.11 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 590808  FAX: +40 (264) 590808 
Best Reisen Cluj, B-dul 21 Decembrie1989, nr.129, apt.38 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 483248  FAX: +40 (264) 483250 
Tourism Aviatica, Str. Napoca, nr.2-4 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 431762  FAX: +40 (264) 431762 
Ave Tour Cluj, Str. Regele Ferdinand, nr.9/5 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 597306  FAX: +40 (264) 597306 
Atlass Tourism, Str. Izlazului 2/30 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 458419  FAX: +40 (264) 458419 
Astra Tour Cluj, Str. Decebal, nr.14/2 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 432468  FAX: +40 (264) 432468 
Anistour Cluj, Str. Iasilor, nr.6 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 484945  FAX: +40 (264) 484945 
And 1 Travel, Str. Maresal Antonescu, nr.8, bl.S1, sc.2, apt.33 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 486933  FAX: +40 (264) 486933 
American Experience, Str. Piezisa, nr.19 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 595440  FAX: +40 (264) 595435 
Alina Tours Cluj, B-dul Titulescu, nr.14, bl.P6, sc.2, apt.47 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 555223  FAX: +40 (264) 555223 
Air Transilvania Cluj, Piata Stefan cel Mare, nr.14 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 594963  
Agrotrip Cluj, B-dul Regele Ferdinand, nr.29/6 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 406363  FAX: +40 (264) 406363 
Aerotravel Lufthansa City Center, Str. Horea , nr.1 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 433124  FAX: +40 (264) 536940 
Adventures4all, Str. Campului, nr. 9 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 745433979  
Accord - Btt, Str. Memorandumului, nr.23 in Cluj-Napoca
+40 (264) 406056  FAX: +40 (264) 406056 
Arobs Transilvania, Str. Danath, nr.11, bl.M4, apt.28 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 598204  FAX: +40 (264) 598426 
Logistics&travel, Stefan cel Mare, nr. 5 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 596151  FAX: +40 (264) 597879 
Tera Travel Cluj, Str. Tipografiei, nr.20 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 596438  FAX: +40 (264) 596438 
Novatouring Turism Cluj2, Str. Republicii, nr.1-3, apt.3 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 595606  FAX: +40 (264) 595606 
Jet Tour Cluj,  in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 430912  FAX: +40 (264) 594498 
Sind Romania (Cluj-Napoca), B-dul Eroilor, nr. 16 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 593145  FAX: +40 (264) 593145 
Student Travel-Work Programs, Str. I.C. Bratianu, nr.32 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 590437  FAX: +40 (264) 592672 
Dala Holidays Cluj, Piata Cipariu, nr.9 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 590586  FAX: +40 (264) 590586 
Terravol Cluj, B-dul Eroilor, nr.45, apt.14 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 450075  FAX: +40 (264) 450075 
Aerocenter Cluj, Piata Timotei Cipariu, nr.15 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 439390  FAX: +40 (264) 439390 
Ro Champion Tours1, Str. Andrei Saguna, nr.20, apt.2 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 433688  FAX: +40 (264) 433688 
Transit Tour Cluj, Str. I.P. Voitesti, nr.2-4, bl.F, sc.2, apt.29 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 432112  FAX: +40 (264) 432112 
Natura Travel, Str. Iuliu Maniu, nr.5 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 430911  FAX: +40 (264) 430911 
Napoca Travel, Str. Primaverii, nr.2 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 426204  FAX: +40 (264) 426204 
Vacanta Cluj, Str. N Titulescu, nr.20, bl.P19, sc.1V, apt.31 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 414173  FAX: +40 (264) 414173 
Unlimited Travel, Str. I. Maniu, nr.26/4 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 450020  FAX: +40 (264) 198606 
Nil Co Travel & Tourism, Str. Piata Unirii, nr.22 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 192674  FAX: +40 (264) 192674 
Ro Tropikal, Piata Mihai Viteazul, nr.29 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 434156  
Transylvania Tours,  in Cluj-Napoca
   
Cfr Agency Cluj-Napoca, Str. Memorandumului, nr.15 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 598385  
Sepia Agrement, Com. Izvorul Crisului, nr.305 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 257142  
Amasis Tours Cluj, Str. Bolyai Janos, nr.5 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 431922  
Aviatica Tourism Cluj, B-dul Eroilor, nr.6-8 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 431762  
Axis Travel Cluj, B-dul Eroilor, nr.47 in Cluj-Napoca
 +40 (264) 597038  
Agentia de Voiaj Cluj, Piata Mihai Viteazu nr.20 in Cluj-Napoca
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All of the phone numbers in Cluj-Napoca start with (264) or (364), depending on whether the service is through the old state-run operator RomTelecom, or from one of the newer entrants into the market in Romania.

Dialling internationally from outside Romania into anywhere in County Cluj, you must remove any leading zero from the county code portion of the phone number, so that (0264) becomes (264).   Dialling a mobile number, you do the same, dropping the zero from the (07XX) part of the number, to make it (7XX).   Both landlines and mobiles have 6 digits following the initial county code. 
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Cluj HotSpots

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Super cool Cluj lives up it's name with the fun and funky Flowers Tea House 1911, offering free wi-fi to patrons in the heart of where it's at in Unification Square (Piaţa Unirii 24).  Check out the website from Cyan Advertising for more info.

As there is no Pizza Hut in Cluj-Napoca as yet, you'll have to settle for a slice at one of the two Pizzeria Montana locations in Cluj, which offer free wireless and typically excellent Romanian takes on pizza.   Contact the Calea Bucuresti Nr. 79 location on +40 (264) 411 558, and the Manastur restaurant at 12 Izlazului Street can be reached at +40 (264) 421 362.
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Please see our Lodging section for more information and contact details for the below Clujean accommodation offering wireless hotspots:
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Hotel Confort, Calea Turzii Nr. 48
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Hotel Melody, Str. Unirii Nr 29
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Hotel Premier, Str. Donath
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Pensiune Dorobanti, Calea Dorobantilor Nr. 26
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Vila Rosa - Hotel, Frunzisului Nr. 2-4
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PF Oproiu Business Centre on Str. Mehedinti Nr. 47-49, Bl. C11, Ap. 78

In nearby Gilau:

Hotel Gilău, Str. Republicii in Gilau.  Free wireless when you stay in the hotel. 
+40 (264) 371745  FAX: +40 (264) 371746

 

 
Localities around Cluj-Napoca area:
Cluj-Napoca  Cluj-Napoca  Apahida  Gilău  Căpuşu Mare  Gārbău  Săvădisla  Baciu  Sānpaul  Chinteni  Aghireşu  Aşchileu  Vultureni  Dăbāca  Borşa  Jucu  Apahida  Cojocna  Feleacu  Căianu  Suatu  Mociu  Cămăraşu  Floreşti 

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Listed below are some local hotels, guesthouses (B&Bs) and other accommodation in the Cluj-Napoca area.

Pensiunea Solaris, str. Planoarelor, Nr. 7 in Apahida
745 890315  
Vila Rosa, str. Frunzisului nr. 4 in Cluj-Napoca
Our hotel is located in the nearbys of the central area of the city, in a quiet location, away from daily urban rush. Vila Rosa Hotel is the genuine oasis of the tranquility you need. Each of the the guest rooms has comfortable furniture, private bathroom, color TV and cable television, card technology access. Also, our Allegria Restaurant welcomes you with its delicious international dishes and cuisine.
(264) 425507  
Vila Eunicia, Str. Emile Zola nr. 2 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 594067  
Hotel Sport, Piaţa Unirii nr. 10 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 194271  
Hostel Retro Youth II, Str. Avram Iancu nr. 9 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 450452  
Hostel Retro Youth I, str. Potaissa nr. 13 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 450452  
Pensiunea Junior, str. Caii Ferate nr. 12 in Cluj-Napoca
Welcome to JUNIOR Lodging House! Situated in the near proximity of city center, airoport and railway station, three star JUNIOR Lodging House offers its guests a wide variety of high quality services and facilities. We kindly invite you to spend unique moments in the confort of our modern rooms, which will make you fell at home. Our house will provide you with double and three bed rooms, to suit all your demands. Our restaurant takes you into an intimate and elegant atmosphere, the ideal place for enjoying a wide range of fine foods and Romanian traditional meals.
(264) 432130  
Pensiunea Paris, str. Paris, nr. 103-105 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 432003  
Hotel Opal, b-dul C-tin Brancusi 148-152 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 403136  
Pensiunea Mellis, str. Moldovei nr. 5 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 595247  
Hotel Zimbru, Bucureşti Nr. 73 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 433334  FAX: (264) 433334 
Pensiunea La Pedro, str. Paris 89B in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 433083  
Hotel Meteor, B-dul Eroilor 29 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 591060  FAX: (264) 591060 
Pensiunea Deja Vu, str. Ion Ghica nr. 2 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 354939  
Vila Alesiv, str. Ciocarliei, nr. 15 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 449862  
Pensiunea Sarmi, str. Gh. Marinescu nr. 31-33 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 590914  
Hotel Univers T, str. Al. Vaida Voievod nr. 53-55 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 152088  
Pensiunea Colibri, str. Intre Lacuri nr.57 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 418641  
Vila Bethen Kata, Str Ponorului nr. 1 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 440510  
Hotel Beta, str. Giordano Bruno nr. 1-3 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 455290  
Pensiunea Elias, Str. Mărăşeşti 21 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 433974  
Pensiunea Casa Raul, Str. Migdalului nr. 5 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 426465  
Hotel Vlădeasa, str. Regele Ferdinand nr. 20 in Cluj-Napoca
(264) 594429  
Pensiunea Gala, Str. Someşului, Nr. 5 in Floresti
(264) 265444  
Vila Gong, Str. Someşul Rece, nr. 1153/C in Gilau
(264) 371468  
Motel Gilău, Str. Republicii in Gilau
(264) 371745  FAX: (264) 371746 
 

 

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Dining

Cluj dining is one of the best in Romania!

Ranging from traditional Romanian, Hungarian and Transylvanian (a combination of the previous two) to Italian (very good Italian food), Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Middle Eastern, American and International Cuisine, the city can offer great dining for all tastes.
Fancy restaurants are available as well as local fast food shops and a few international chains (McDonald's, Pizza Hut).

Recommended Cluj Restaurants:

Romanian/Transylvanian:

Roata (near the City Hall), Casa Ardeleana (in the Sora Shopping Center), Ciuleandra (inside the Best Western Topaz Hotel)
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Transylvanian/Hungarian:

Red House

International:

Maestro (best in town) ,Pizza Y, Casa Vikingilor (huge portions), Intim, Escorial, Hubertus, Lugano, Marco Polo (in the City Plaza Hotel), Aroma (on the Feleacu hill - great view), Panoramic (on the Cetatuia - great view from above of the downtown), Bolero, Fair Play, Roland Garros, Topaz, Vila Tusa, Marty Caffe

Chinese:

Shanghai, Hao Yi

Japanese:

Tokyo, Marco Polo

American:

Chicago's

Middle Eastern:

Fahid
 
 

NIGHT LIFE

Cluj has a vibrant night life, guaranteed by the over 60000 college students living here. there are bars, cafes, clubs for all preferences and budgets.

Night Life Top Picks:

Recommended cafes:

Vanilla, Diesel, Fullton Caffe and Club, River Caffe, Bellini Caffe, Imperial Caffe, Crema, Il Caffe del Corso, Il Caffe, Bolero, Mozart Cafe, Quo Vadis, Jazz, Cafe Bulgakov, Flowers Tea House (WiFi)

Recommended Clubs:

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Oscar (afterhours), Diesel, Euphoria, Seven, After Eight, Obsession, The King, KO
Unique Places (atmosphere, decoration, service): English Bar (Maestro Restaurant), Quo Vadis, Insomnia, Euphoria, Mozart

 Bars:

Crema, Vanilla, Diesel, Music Pub, Insomnia, Hard Rock Cafe (not the chain - real rockers here), Lugano, Harley Davidson, Legends Music Pub

Hot Spots:

Str. Horea. A place to meet students and to get to know new music.

 

The area code for County Cluj is (264) or (364)
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The History and Culture -- What Happened and Why?
==HISTORY===================================  
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Early Cluj

The word "Clus" means "closed" in Latin, and is related to the hills that surround the city.

The city was officially called Kolozsvįr from about 1600 to 1918. Then the city was known as Cluj until 1974, when the name was changed to its current form, in order to reflect both its medieval and antique names.

The capital of Transylvania reaches as far back as prehistoric times.

Roman Dacia, c. 130AD
From the Olt River through the Pannonian Plains, including the Carpathian basin to north of the Danube
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After the Roman Empire conquered Dacia in the beginning of the 2nd century, Trajan established a legion base known as Napoca. Hadrian raised Napoca to the status of a municipium, naming it Municipium Aelium Hadrianum Napoca.
The locality was later raised to the status of a colonia, probably during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. Napoca became a provincial capital of Provincia Porolissensis and the seat of a procurator. However, during the Migrations Period Napoca was overrun and destroyed.
Read More About Early Transilvanian History Here

 

Medieval Cluj

King Stephen V of Hungary encouraged the Transylvanian Saxons to colonize near the Roman city of Napoca in 1272.

Their settlement received the German name Klausenburg, from the old word Klause meaning "mountain pass." It has been suggested that the Romanian name Cluj may be derived from Klause as well, or from the Latin name Castrum clus, the name by which the city first appeared in written documents, around 1170 (clusum (Lat.) = "closed", referring to the city being surrounded by hills). The city of Cluj / Klausenburg was also known as Kolozsvįr by the Magyars who lived there.

In 1270 Cluj was given urban privileges by Stephen V and began to grow quickly: the Saint Michael Church was built under King Sigismund. Cluj became a free city in 1405.

By this time the number of Saxon and Hungarian inhabitants was equal, and King Matthias Corvinus (born in Cluj in 1440) ordered that the chief judge should be Hungarian and Saxon in turn.
In 1541 Cluj became part of the Principality of Transylvania. Although Alba Iulia was the political capital for the princes of Transylvania, Cluj was the main cultural and religious center for the principality. Stephen Bathory founded a Jesuit academy in Cluj in 1581. Between 1545 and 1570 large numbers of Saxons left the city due to the introduction of Unitarian doctrines[citation needed], while Hungary's wars with Ottoman Empire further reduced the German population. They were largely replaced with Magyars, and the city became a center for Hungarian nobility and intellectuals.
Read More About Early Transilvanian History Here

 

Modern Cluj

The first Hungarian newspaper appeared in Cluj in 1791, and the first Hungarian theatrical company was established in 1792. In 1798 the city was heavily damaged by a fire.

From 1790-1848 and 1861-1867, Cluj was the capital of the Grand Principality of Transylvania and the seat of the Transylvanian diets. Beginning in 1830, the city became the centre of the Hungarian national movement in the principality. During the Revolutions of 1848, Cluj was taken and garrisoned in December by Hungarians under the command of the Polish general Józef Bem.
After the Ausgleich (compromise) which created Austria-Hungary in 1867, Cluj and Transylvania were integrated into the Kingdom of Hungary. During this time Cluj was the second-largest city in the kingdom behind Budapest, and was the seat of Kolozs county.

Cluj in the Kingdom of Romania

After the First World War Cluj became part of the Kingdom of Romania, along with the rest of Transylvania.

Cluj in Northern Transilvania, 1941-1947
After the Vienna Awards of 1940, Cluj  became a border town with the Kingdom in Nazi Hungary
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In 1940 Cluj was awarded to Hungary through the Second Vienna Award, but Hungarian forces in the city were defeated by the Romanian and Soviet armies in October 1944. Cluj was restored to Romania by the Treaty of Paris in 1947.
Cluj had 16,763 Jews in 1941. While under Hungarian administration, the Cluj Jews were ghettoized in 1944 under conditions of intense overcrowding and practically no facilities. Liquidation of the ghetto occurred through six deportations to Auschwitz between May and June 1944.

Despite facing severe sanctions from the Horthy government, many Jews have been helped during those times by Romanian peasants of neighbouring villages to cross the border to the Romanian Kingdom.

Thus, they succeeded to flee the Holocaust in Europe by ship, from the Black Sea port of Constanta. Hungarians remained the majority of the city's population until the 1950s.
According to the 1966 Census, of 185,663 Cluj inhabitants, 56% were Romanians and 41% Hungarians. Until 1974 the official Romanian name of the city was Cluj. It was renamed to Cluj-Napoca by the Communist government to recognize it as the site of the Roman colony
Napoca. Some believe that this was done to slight the Hungarian community by affirming that the ethnic Romanian community is descended from the Dacians colonized by the Romans–a fact disputed by some Hungarian theories.
See our section on the Origin of Romanians here
 

The New Cluj after 1989

Soon after the democratic revolution in 1989 came the twelve-year mayorship of the ex-communist ultra-nationalist politician Gheorghe Funar.

His tenure was marked by strong Romanian national ideas, perceived by some as anti-Hungarian sentiments. A number of public art projects were undertaken by the city with the aim of highlighting Romanian symbols of the city, most of them perceived as aiming to obscure the city's Hungarian ancestry.
In June 2004 Gheorghe Funar was voted out of office, coming in third in the first round of voting. He was replaced by Emil Boc of the Democratic Party, who began working with Hungarians to restore good ethnic relations in the city.
In 1994 and in 2000, Cluj-Napoca hosted the Central European Olympiad in Informatics (CEOI). It thus made Romania not only the first country to have hosted the CEOI, but also the first country to have hosted it a second time.
The city is known in Hasidic Jewish history for the founding of the Sanz-Klausenburg dynasty.
Read More About the Recent History of Transilvania Here

 

Population

From the Middle Ages onwards, the city of Cluj has been a multicultural city with a diverse cultural and religious life.

As of 2002 the city's population was 318,027 (ranked third in Romania after the capital Bucharest and Iaşi), of which there were about 80% ethnic Romanians and 19% Hungarians (down from 80% in 1910 and 50% in 1956), with 1% Roma, 0.23% Germans and 0.06% Jews. 
 
 
 

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