The Bastion, Theresia Bastion, was originally designed as a “ravelin” (a fortification item built outside the first entrenchment of the fortress, approximately in the middle of the curtain between the two bastions, to “flank” with “flanking fire” those bastions.

It appears on plans since 1732. On the 1734 plan it appears as completely finished. Subsequently it was included in the first fortification ring as a bastion, called the Theresia Bastion.

Names and historical functions

1732 – the Provision Storehouse Ravelin (food)

Benefitting of the natural environment of the oak forest in the north-eastern outskirts of Timisoara, the Banat Village Museum continually redefines its mission through the exercise of its functions that makes it a cultural institution in the service of society and which collects, conserves, researches restores, communicates and exhibits, with the purpose of knowledge, education and recreation, the material and spiritual testimony of the existence and evolution of human communities in the villages belonging to the historical Banat, multicultural and multiethnic, where the Romanians were the

Bega River is 254 km long, of which 178 km are in Romania and 76 km in Serbia. It springs in the Poiana Rusca mountains to the northeast of Timisoara, part of the Carpathian Mountains, and it flows into the Tisa in Serbia and thereafter into the Danube.

Charlottenburg or Charlotenburg; Sarlota (Romanian); Sarlotavar (Hungarian), is settled in the western part of Romania, in the Romanian Banat, district of Timis, municipality of Bogda (germ. Neuhof) in the socalled Bergsau area. The Bergsau is a part of a landscape called Banater Hecke. It consists of a chain of hills covered by forests, fields and pastures, which is extended from Pischia (germ.

The Orthodox Mitropolitan Cathedral is the tallest cathedral in Romania and one of the largest churches in our country. It can be seen from distance when one comes closer to the city and often it represents the symbol of Timişoara. The cathedral is remarkable through its style, its through and its 11 towers, coverd with enameled ceramics, as well as through the harmony of its bells.
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Poiana Rusca

The agro-touristic area of the Poiana Rusca mountain piedmont is located on the east side of Timis county, at the border with Hunedoara and Caras Severin Counties. The localities belonging to this area are:

Margina, Curtea, Pietroasa, Tomeşti, Nădrag, Fîrdea, Dumbrava, Mănăştur, Traian Vuia, Bîrna, Criciova, Victor Vlad Delamarina, Găvojdia and a city - Făget.

Timisoara Zoo is located in the Green Forest, stretching on 6 hectares. The property of the Zoo belongs to Timisoara’s City Hall.

In 2007 the Zoo was modernized and numerous improvements were made to ensure proper conditions for the wild animals in captivity. In the Zoo were created 16 habitats, in which 144 animals live, belonging to 29 animal species. The visitors could see animals from all continents, such as hussar monkeys, ostriches, guanacos, maras, reindeers, bears, emu birds, red necked wallabies, small hens, raccoons and waterfowls: swans and various species of ducks.

Among the existing caves from the upper basin of Bega River, the Romanesti Cave is the largest and most interesting. It is located on south-east from Romanesti village (Tomesti commune, Timis county), on the left bank, well forested, of Pustinia valley, at 2.2 km upstream of the confluence of this creek with Bega Poieni. More precisely, it is broken in the north bank of Filip Hill, referred to as Dosu Pesterii, at 370 m altitude.

The Museum is hosted by the Baroque Palace, one of Timişoara’s key buildings, built in Baroque style in the second half of the eighteenth century in the city’s Main Square (now Unirii Square). The exterior decorative motifs betray a close Viennese lineage, being remarkable similar to Kinsky Palace.

The building, being in an important restoration process, was restored to the public in 2006, once with the establishment of the Timişoara Art Museum.

Around the year 1850, over half of the population in Timişoara lived in the Fabric district. If the “Cetate” was and remains the city’s brilliant showcase, Fabric was once the neighborhood of “middle-class people in Timişoara” and still keeps the picturesque of past centuries.