Timișoara

 Currency

RON

UTC Timezone

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Calling Code

+40

Population

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Timisoara, Romania

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It's hardly a surprise that Timișoara was the first Romanian city that threw off the yoke of Nicolae Ceaușescu's brutal Communist regime back in the late 80s. Historic though it is, this town feels ready to pounce, creative, and indelibly energetic. Aside from hosting six – yes, six! – separate universities, it also has cutting-edge medical institutions (the first laser heart surgery in the country was performed here, you know?) and major tech players.

Balancing that out is a genuinely charming core. Sat in a neat cradle of the Bega River, it's formed by a series of concentric walls that once kept out the Habsburgs and then kept out the Ottomans. Only a few bastions remain of the old fortifications, so you can stroll past them and into the maze of squares, streets, and parklands that give the town the epithet of 'Little Vienna'. That's where you'll find Union Square and Liberty Square, watched over the bold frontages of the Romanian National Opera, one of Timișoara's cultural trump cards.

Private charter flights to Timișoara can also be a way into the Banat corner of Transylvania. That holds secrets like the Roman spa town of Buziaș, where Hungarian kings once went to unwind. And it's got the best hiking in western Romania, mainly thanks to the sprawling reserves of the Cheile Carasului National Park, a land of pine forests and canyons at the tail end of the bear-stalked Semenic Mountains.