Theresia Bastion

Theresia Bastion named after the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, is the biggest preserved piece of defensive wall of the Austrian-Hungarian fortress of Timisoara. It covers approximately 1.7 hectares of the city center. It was constructed among 1732 to 1734. Today it's miles used as a passage, however it also houses industrial areas, restaurants, bars, a disco and a library, and two permanent exhibitions of the Museum of Banat, the Information and Communications Technology "Violin - a ardour for lifestyles", and the Ethnography Museum Village. After the conquest of Timisoara by the Habsburgs in 1716, it became found out that the vintage fortifications couldn't cope with new fighting strategies, consequently it turned into determined to rebuild the complete town in Pagan style a castle-stronghold of a stellar form. It had an area larger than the Ottoman medieval castle.

The town was surrounded through 3 stellar belts that would be full of water. Access became through 3 gates: of Vienna, Petrovaradin and Transylvania. The 9 bastions of the fortress were named after kings and queens or generals. In the second 1 half of the 19th century, most of the people of the metropolis partitions was demolished to make room for the rapidly expanding metropolis.