Day 6 August 8th

     We took a short cab ride to Timisoara to look at some more practical things. After getting out of the cab our tour guide took us first to Victory Square to gaze at the numerous baroque era buildings. At the south end of the square we found the focal point, the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral. The green and red roof tiles were for mosaic design were constructed between 1936 and 1946. There is a memorial that honors people that lost their lives in the 1989 revolution that overthrow communism. We moved onto to Union Square and directly went to the east side to see the Roman Catholic Cathedral. This building was designed by Fisher von Erlach in the years of 1736 and 1754.  Then we walked from Freedom Square to Victory Square and looked at a variety of Secessionist architecture in Piata Libertatii. Our guide told us that when the Banat region was under Turkish control Austrian-Habsburg Prince Eugene de Savoy built a seven star-shaped bastion and gate-towers. The last destination we headed to was the Memorial Museum of the 1989 Revolution. This museum exhibits different military uniforms and testimonies of witnesses and participants. After that daunting place we decided it was time to try and find a place to eat lunch and settle down in a hotel. We have some pizza at Pizza La Maria that reminded us a little of home and how our trip was about to end soon. The hotel we choose to settle down at was called Roma that was just a little two star that accommodated us well.