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A small Benedictine abbey surrounded by defensive walls, Calvaria Church was built starting in the 9–10th centuries.
Calvaria Church was built in the district of Mănăștur in Cluj-Napoca. It was originally founded as a monastery for the Benedictines.
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Biserica cu Cocoș
Designed by the famous architect Kós Károly.
Zoo museum. Variety of conservated reptiles and fishes includes horror-movie-like exhibition items like Amazon jungle snakes, ray, scorpions and lizards. Also stuffed wild mammals, crocodiles and turtles. The museum is found on university campus building on the ground floor on your left. If doors are closed, try knocking. The same building incorporates another live reptile exhibition downstairs. To visit it, take spiral stairs down from the lobby.
Parcul Central
A welcome break from the rush of the city. The middle of the park hosts a small lake and the Chios Casino, from the terrace of which you can rent rowboats and hydrobicycles to circle the small island in the centre of the lake.
Cazinoul Vechi
In the Central Park, built at the end of the 19th century, restored in 2012.
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
Parcul Etnografic "Romulus Vuia"
Displays village buildings in Transylvania region in 18 and 19 centuries in a 16-ha area park next to the city centre. Most are farmyards displaying a variety of used tools too. Highlights include high stretched cupolas churches with religions drawings within. Most buildings are closed but stalking through the windows are ok. Please allow one and a half hour for a visit.