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Next door to the Culture Palace is the County Council Building, with a tiled roof and
bright-green spires. Its 60m watchtower
may
open for visitors, but presently the only
glimpse of the building's interior you can get is the grand, colourful entry with hand-
painted ceilings and stained glass facing the grand staircase upstairs.
Memorial to Victims of the 1989 Revolution
On Piaţa Unirii, just past the Romanian Orthodox
Greco-Catholic Cathedral
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is a memorial made of five connected wooden crosses in tribute to the eight
locals killed here.
MUSEUM
Teleki Library/Bolyai Museum
(
www.telekiteka.ro
;
Str Bolyai 17; admission by donation; 10am-6pm Tue-Fri, to 1pm
Sat & Sun)
The Teleki Library (under renovation at the time of writing) contains some
230,000 (and counting) rare books. The adjoining Bolyai Museum (if locked, ask the front
desk to open it) is dedicated to Târgu Mureş' sons Farkas and János Bolyai, 19th-century
mathematicians whose advances superseded Newtonian theories, shaping space science as
we know it. If that's boring to you, scalps and skull parts are also displayed.
MUSEUM
Orthodox Cathedral
The dominating Orthodox Cathedral (1925-34) was designed to impress, with gold icons
(as well as a politically charged mural of a 'Romanian peasant' Jesus being whipped by
nobles in Hungarian costumes inside; look to the left and right after entering).
CHURCH
Roman Catholic Church
(Biserica Sfântul Jonos)
Across the street from the Orthodox Cathedral is this airier,
baroque -style church, which dates from 1728.
CHURCH
MUSEUM
Ethnographic Museum
( 0265-250 169; Piaţa Trandafirilor 11; adult/student 4/2 lei; 9am-4pm Tue-Fri, to
2pm Sat, to 1pm Sun)
On the square's western side, just past adjoining Piaţa Teatrul, is the
simple Ethnographic Museum, housed in the baroque Toldalagi Palace (1762). The collec-
