Cluj-Napoca Banffy Palace

Banffy Castle is a baroque building of the 18th century in Cluj-Napoca, designed by the German architect Johann Eberhard Blaumann. Built between 1774 and 1775 it's far considered the maximum representative for the baroque fashion of Transylvania. The first owner of the palace changed into the Hungarian duke György Bánffy 1746–1822, the governor of Transylvania. Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor and his wife Caroline Augusta of Bavaria had been hosted inside the palace at some point of their visit in Kolozsvár, between 18 and 27 August 1817. This become the primary occasion whilst a ruler from the Habsburg circle of relatives visited the metropolis. Franz Joseph I of Austria was additionally the visitor of the palace among 2-4. August 1852 and 22–24 September 1887.

The palace in conjunction with the R?scruci fortress of the Bánffy family capabilities in the reminiscences of an English governess, Florence Tarring, who labored for one of the branches of the Bánffy circle of relatives during the First World War 1914-1919. In February 1951 the council of the metropolis determined to empty the palace to establish an Art Museum there; the works have been finished within the summer of 1954. The museum turned into opened within the restored palace on 30.