Piața Unirii (

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for ''Union Square'') is the largest and most important square in the

city of

Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...

. The square is one of the largest in Romania, with dimensions of 220 m by 160 m. The central district of the city spreads out from this square. The St. Michael's Church, with the highest

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in Romania (80m), is the second largest Gothic-style church in Romania. The church was constructed in two phases. The first from 1316 to 1390 and the second from 1410 to 1487. Also, the statue of King of

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

Matthias Corvinus Matthias Corvinus (; ; ; ; ; ) was King of Hungary and King of Croatia, Croatia from 1458 to 1490, as Matthias I. He is often given the epithet "the Just". After conducting several military campaigns, he was elected King of Bohemia in 1469 and ...

is located here. The old town hall, the National Museum of Art, the Josika Palace, and the Rhédey palace can also be found here. The Piața Unirii was originally called ''Nagypiac'' in Hungarian (''Piața Mare'' in Romanian), meaning "Big Market Square", as opposed to the ''Kispiac'' ("Little Market Square"), which is now the Museum Square.

References

*József Lukács - ''Povestea „orașului-comoară”'', Editura Biblioteca Apostrof, Cluj-Napoca, 2005 {{Cluj-geo-stub Buildings and structures in Cluj-Napoca Squares in Romania