Easy hikes and walks around Forest Hoia

The Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral on Avram Iancu Square was built between 1923 and 1933, immediately after the unification of Transylvania with Romania. It is one of the city's most important religious buildings. The church is dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1973, when the eparchial see of Cluj was elevated to the rank of an archdiocese, the church became the archiepiscopal cathedral. Since 2006, the building has served as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Vad, Feleac, and Cluj, which is also the seat of the Metropolitans of Cluj, Maramureș, and Sălaj. It is currently the third-highest cathedral in Romania after the Evangelical Cathedral of Sibiu and the Metropolitan Cathedral of Timișoara.

The bronze sculptures by Liviu Mocanu, popularly known as the "Shot Columns", commemorate the fighters against the Ceaușescu dictatorship and for freedom and democracy. During the 1989 revolution, 26 people died in Cluj-Napoca, 13 of them in Piața Unirii. Another 57 people were injured, 28 of them in this square. The monument, erected in 2003, consists of seven cylindrical parts, each of which is between two and a half and three and a half meters high, each of which bears the symbolic marks of bullets. Next to it are two bronze plaques engraved with the names of the 13 victims.

The Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord (Catedrala greco-catolică Schimbarea la Față) was built in the Baroque style between 1775 and 1779 by the Minorite Order, the oldest branch of the Franciscans, under the patronage of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa. For a long time it was the church of the Roman Catholic upper class of the city. In 1924 the Pope handed it over to the Greek Catholic Church united with Rome (Uniate), for which it now serves as a bishop's church. The Art Nouveau stained glass windows depicting saints are worth seeing. The nameplates have been removed because the people depicted are patron saints of Hungary and the reference to this was no longer desired by the Uniate Romanians.

A faithful replica of the Capitoline Wolf, which according to legend suckled the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, has stood in Cluj-Napoca since September 28, 1921. It is a gift from the Italian state to the city and is intended to remind people of their shared Romanesque roots. The statue, whose base is decorated with a relief of Emperor Trajan and the inscription "Alla citta di Cluj, Roma Madre, MCMXXI", was moved several times until it found its current location in the middle of the Eroilor Boulevards.

The Cluj-Napoca City Hall was built at the end of the 19th century according to the plans of Ignác Alpár. With its Viennese Baroque-style façade and corner bell tower with clock, the building was initially the seat of the Royal Hungarian government of the Kolozs region (Cluj-Napoca is called Kolozsvár in Hungarian). With around 325,000 inhabitants, Cluj-Napoca is the second largest city in Romania and the largest city in Transylvania.

The "Casa Matei Corvin" is the birthplace of the future Hungarian king. It is the oldest secular building in the city, built in the 15th century in the Gothic style as a small guesthouse. Matthias Corvinus ("the Raven") was born here on February 23, 1443. He ascended the Hungarian throne in 1458 at the age of fourteen. In gratitude for the hospitality that the house owner Jakab Méhffi had once shown his heavily pregnant mother, King Matthias decreed in 1467 that Méhffi and all his descendants were exempt from all taxes and duties. Over the course of its history, the house served as a prison, hospital and museum. Today it houses an institute for fine arts at the local art and design college.

Since 1968, the Carolina Obelisk has stood in the middle of Museum Square in front of the Franciscan Church, after it was moved here from Unirii Square. Abraham Cürös and Samuel Nagy created this oldest secular monument in the city. The occasion was the visit of the Austro-Hungarian imperial couple Franz I and his fourth wife Karoline Auguste. They had travelled to Klausenberg in 1917 to calm the waves that the city had suffered during the famines caused by the Napoleonic Wars. However, the emperor and his wife did not get to see the obelisk, whose corners are accentuated by four eagles with laurel leaves. It was not completed until much later and inaugurated in 1831.

From Unirii Square, Strada Matei Corvin leads to the birthplace of this former Hungarian king. The cobbled street is flanked by restaurants and pubs that, when the weather is nice, have tables set up outside for their guests and attract them with elaborate lighting from hundreds of light bulbs.