Historical names: The Parade Square (Parade Platz), Libertăţii Square (Freiheitsplatz), Prince Eugen Square (Jenö herceg tér).

Dating: Libertăţii Square is undoubtedly the oldest of the Timişoara squares. Libertăţii Square’s location is also the site of the original nucleus from which Timişoara’s evolution started, the first place where people settled and lived continuously in the hearth of today’s city.

The parks and green areas along Bega canal and all over the city give a special charm to the area. This is the reason why Timişoara is also called „the city of parks and roses”.

The Botanical Park is Timişoara’s largest park and includes a great variety of arboreal and protected flowers species. It was arranged together with the Cadet Military School.

The Museum of the Romanian Revolution from 1989 in Timişoara is the most important point of storage and presentation of information on the December 1989 Revolution from the entire country.

History: 

The Banatian Living Village Museum concept, proposed for implementation via HURO / 1101 / 164/ 2.1.3 project, consists of the reiteration of the Banat village living conditions of the early 19th century by building a replica of 4 traditional farms authentic households, by ethnicity: Romanian, Hungarian,  Schwabian and one Serbian. The households will be permanently inhabited and maintained by families carefully selected based on defined criteria that will perform specific activities to the area of the housing.

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.

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.
History: 

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.

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.