The Theresia Bastion

Local nameBastionul Maria Therezia
LocationCetate, Timișoara, Romania

Theresia Bastion, named after the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, is the largest preserved piece of defensive wall of the Austrian-Hungarian fortress of Timișoara. It covers about 1.7 hectares of the city center. It was built between 1732 and 1734. Today it is used as a passage, but it also houses commercial spaces, restaurants, bars, a disco and a library, and two permanent exhibitions of the Museum of Banat, the Information and Communications Technology "Violin – a passion for life", and the Ethnography Museum Village. The bastion is included on the list of historical monuments in the Timiș County with classification code TM-II-m-A-06103.03.

Tags City Wall
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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresia_Bastion

Coordinates 45°45'25.192" N 21°14'0.686" E

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