Targu Mures: Riches

We just got back from 2 days in Targu Mures. We left on Monday at 5:15 (AM!) and arrived around 11:30. We spent most of the afternoon walking around, stayed the night in the lovely (though quirky) Hotel Concorida, and then spent the next day walking and visiting places til the train left at 4:40, leaving us in Timisoara at 11:30 (PM!) Tuesday night. It was, in a word, exhausting (but the good kind of exhausting, we kept telling ourselves.)

The city center is filled with beautiful buildings, dated from the 15th century onwards. But our particular focus were the glorious late 19th/early 20th century secessionist buildings which the city is famous for. The most important are the County Council Building and the Palace of Culture. (Each of these will get their very own blog posts.) But here's a start of the eclectic riches of Targu Mures.

Vamos House. Bela Keleti. 1908-1910. (Floral, ethnographic approach).

Apartments. Arpad Varadi. 1912-1013. (Functionalist approach).

Of course not everything is "technically beautiful."

But it's vibrant and colorful.

Filled with all kinds of details and views.