Timisoara Random

Timisoara is Romania's 4th largest city with a thriving Opera and Theater. Unlike other cities in the country, few Romanians have a bad word to say about it. It is dubbed the "city of flowers" due to the numerous parks surrounding a ring around the center and throughout the entire city. Protests in 1989 ignited country-wide uprisings that eventually toppled Ceauşescu and the communist government. In part due to its proximity to Hungary, Timisoara is one of Romania's most developed cities.

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Cute garbage can. Romanians have a bad habit of throwing garbage everywhere except in the garbage bins. Mine-as-well teach the kids early. This little girl wanted to go inside and was playing with the bin before her mom could grab her.

This life-size bronze sculpture is the Target Man who represents a skeleton writhing with pain and is a memorial.

Another memorial

Flower Market-the biggest Ive ever seen!! The building was huge.

These are candles hanging up. They make them and use them for funerals and weddings.

These are pine branches with real or fake flowers. They are used during funerals and put on graves and memorials. A friend and I learned that you should not buy one to give to a family when their beloved cat dies. haha. The family loved it though.

Sexy Speedos!!! The add if for obtaining credit from a bank. Odd!!

A random clock that actually works.

The beautiful ceiling in a restaurant.

Yes, Timisoara really was the first city in Europe to have street lights and was also the first European city to introduce horse-drawn trams in 1869.

Timisoara is full of amazing parks. This was a whole spot dedicated to metal sculptures. They are so cute!!

Monsters

The entrance to someones house. Beautiful!!

The Great Synagogue

Yucky brown Bega canal. Frenchman Gustave Eiffel, who engineered the Eiffel Tower, built a bridge over the city's Bega canal.

Botanical Garden

View from out Hotel window. You can see the Jewish Synagogue left of the middle.

Hotel Timisoara was in the center right next to the Opera House. It was really nice except for the 20 lei per day parking fee.

Weird Fact: MGM's original Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) was born in Timisoara in 1904 and later stared in Tarzan the Ape Man. He was also an Olympic gold medal winner in swimming and modeled swimwear. Tarzan never declared himself Romanian and left for America in childhood.