- Cultural Palace in Târgu Mureş
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The hungarian ballad of Sára Salamon
The Cultural Palace (Hungarian: Kultúrpalota) (built between 1911 and 1913) is a remarkable construction in the center of Târgu Mureş (Marosvásárhely). It was built to the request of György Bernády by Marcell Komor (1868-1944) and Dezső Jakab (1864-1932).
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Outside description
The competition for building the Cultural Palace was won by Komor and Jakab with their two-floor construction plan. Only later to the request of mayor Bernády György the construction was expanded to 3 floors. Construction started in 1911 and lasted until 1913 when the inside decorations were finished as well. On the window glasses there are illustrated sequences from Hungarian legends. The roof is decorated with blue, ruddy and white tiles. On the main facade the statues and the embossments are in bronze. The Mirrors Hall can be found on the first floor of the building, and on the balustrades of the windows the portraits of Kazinczy Ferenc, Tompa Mihály, Kemény Zsigmond and more. The most interesting and visited part of the Palace is the Mirrors Hall, which is above the entrance hall. Above the 'quartet' gate the bronze embossments of Szent Erzsébet, Bolyai János and Bolyai Farkas, Aranka György and Bánk bán of Erkel Ferenc can be seen.
Other information
The inside of the palace housed the City Cinema between 1913 and 1957, the first Romanian Theater School between 1934 and 1940, the State Theater between 1946 and 1973, the Fine Arts and Music Secondary School between 1949 and 1970, the Academy of Fine Arts between 1932 and 1949 and the County House for Guidance of Folkloric Creation between 1950 and 1999. The Palace has also been home to the County Library since 1913.
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Exterior of the Cultural Palace
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Hall of Mirrors
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The ceiling mural of the Cultural Palace
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Places of worship Bob Church • Evangelical Church • Franciscan Church • Fortress Church • Great Synagogue • Minorita Church • Nicholas Church • St. Elisabeth Chapel • St. John the Baptist Parish Church • St. John of Nepomuk Church • Small Reformed Church • Unitarian Church
Historical buildings Palace of Justice • Apolló Palace • Bányai House • Bissingen House • Bolyai House • Cultural Palce • Hotel and Coffe House Európa • Görög House • Kendeffy House • Lábas House • Legények House • Teleki - Bolyai Liberary • Teleki House • Toldalagi Palace • Tolnai House • Hotel TranszilvániaStatues and monuments Bartók Béla Statue • Bem Józef Statue • Bolyai Farkas and János Statue • Holocaust Statue • Kossuth Lajos Statue • Károly Kós Statue • Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Statue • Márton Áron Statue • Sándor Petőfi Statue • Pseudosphaera Statue • Szentgyörgyi István Statue • Székely martyrs' sculpture • Zenélő kútOther sites Zoo • Reformed Cemetery • Roman Catholic CemeteryCoordinates: 46°32′36″N 24°33′29″E / 46.54333°N 24.55806°E
Categories:- Buildings and structures in Târgu Mureş
- 1913 establishments
- 19th-century architecture
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