This blue Art Nouveau palace was built in 1905 by a Jewish merchant. Survived 2 wars, communism, and a 1977 earthquake. Still standing in Oradea, Romania [OC]
This blue Art Nouveau palace was built in 1905 by a Jewish merchant. Survived 2 wars, communism, and a 1977 earthquake. Still standing in Oradea, Romania [OC]
I grew up 80 km from here, but in Hungary. Didn’t really visit during my childhood, but visited now in April for 2 days. Downtown looks really pretty, not just this building
PhoenixKingMalekith on
It looks realy great !
Does Romania have a lot of Art Nouveau building ?
It s a bit sad to see that Jewish heritage, and know that there are basically no more jews in Romania
cerberus_243 on
It was built in Nagyvárad, Hungary, but now it’s located in Oradea, Romania. I love history!!!
![This blue Art Nouveau palace was built in 1905 by a Jewish merchant. Survived 2 wars, communism, and a 1977 earthquake. Still standing in Oradea, Romania [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/4u9qi99baywg1-819x1024.jpeg "This blue Art Nouveau palace was built in 1905 by a Jewish merchant. Survived 2 wars, communism, and a 1977 earthquake. Still standing in Oradea, Romania [OC]")
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Looks very authentic. You can’t really tell whether it is Eastern European, Southern European, Balkan, Hungarian or Ottoman.
Beautiful, except for that Exchange sign. There has to be a way to have a sign that fits better with the look of the building.
I once had that building in GeoDetective. Wasn’t hard to find either. Neat!
Ominous sky. Like the building has sucked the blue out of it
Wasn’t it built by construction workers? 😬
In Cherkasy, Ukraine there is similar to this. [Cherkasy ](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%27%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_(%D0%B1%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81-%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80)#/media/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%3A%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%C2%AB%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%E2%80%99%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%C2%BB%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8.jpg)
Why does the merchant’s religion matters here?
Absolutely gorgeous.
So stunning 😍
I grew up 80 km from here, but in Hungary. Didn’t really visit during my childhood, but visited now in April for 2 days. Downtown looks really pretty, not just this building
It looks realy great !
Does Romania have a lot of Art Nouveau building ?
It s a bit sad to see that Jewish heritage, and know that there are basically no more jews in Romania
It was built in Nagyvárad, Hungary, but now it’s located in Oradea, Romania. I love history!!!
Bad joke, sorry
Beautiful architecture.
I wish modern buildings had this much character.