Why Timisoara Romania is a traveler's delight
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ม.ค. 2025
- I begin a series of videos from Romania in the delightful city of Timisoara, the country’s most celebrated cultural and educational center and ground zero for the 1989 revolution that overthrew 4-1/2 decades of communist rule.
I arrived here by train from Hungary to a marvelously walkable city filled with lively pedestrian streets connecting the three major plazas around which the town is laid out. To venture farther afield one need only hop aboard one of the water taxis that ply the Bega River (canal) that divides the city and connects with neighboring Serbia a few miles to the west.
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I’m Czech, my wife is from Timisoara and we will be moving there from UK, can’t wait.
Congratulations! Wish you the best in your new home together!
What a beautiful city. Commuting on the river sure beats smelly traffic jams and expensive parking. Unusual Botanical gardens! Thanks, Ron!
Many thanks Jack!
Super erklärt! Danke!
Ich mag sehr Timisoara.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the video.
awesome historical explanations for a much better understanding the city, congratulations.
There is so much history in that region... Various empires and monarchies ruled there, you can still see much of their influence in their old architecture and buildings... Even the ancient Romans got a foothold there...
Wow Ron, Dunno if you're super knowledgeable🤗 or u did ur homework like a champ.
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Well documented video. You should also visit Oradea it's only 2 hours drive from Timisoara.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll keep it in mind for my next visit.
Enjoyed the vlog, it shows that you also enjoyed the city and doing it. Helping out with the reach..otherwise I strongly believe you were tempted to eat homemade soap.
Outstanding video as always my friend. Cheers from Tallinn 👍🏻✌🏻
Many thanks, Geoffrey!
❤ wow So beautiful very amazing video Awesome Wonderful great job God bless you 👏👏👏❤❤❤👌🏻🤗👌🏻
Thanks iffi! So glad you are enjoying the channel.
Timisoara, my love❤️❤️❤️
How do you learn so much about my country?How do you remember all these words of Romanian History!Great job!Why don't you go to Constanta City and Mandalia and Beaches of Romania resorts like : Neptune,. Saturn, Olympic, Venus, Jupiter, Eforie, etc..Also go to Brasov, Sinaia, Sibiu, Predeal, and Lacul Ursu in Sighisoara.
NIna, I'm happy you enjoyed the video. Romania was wonderful for me. And among the places I visited I did go to a couple that are on your list, Sibiu and Brasov. If you haven't seen them, you might want to watch the videos. Thanks again!
@@OUTBOUNDWITHRON Thanks for responding! And fortunately you will make more videos about Romania! Yes, Europe is indeed very beautiful!Do you live in U.S.A?Just curious!Where are you now?Are you traveling of you are at home?Do you travel a lot?Safe Travels!
@@ninachilargi3247 Yes, Nina I live in the United States. I travel about 6 months out of the year. Most of my editing is at home. Which means there is a delay that varies from several weeks to several months from when I'm at a specific location and when the video appears. If you haven't already, you can subscribe to the channel and take a look at all the videos I've produced thus far from different parts of the world. There's more information about me at my website, outboundwithron.com. Thanks for your kind words.
@@OUTBOUNDWITHRON Wow you travel 6 months per year. That is fantastic! You have great energy!Thank you for taking time to respond to me. Do you travel with your children, your family ? I live in Kansas. Where do you live in States!God bless you!
@@ninachilargi3247 I travel solo. I live in Portland, Oregon.
I guess the nice appearances that this city puts out for tourists are working! I’m not going to say it’s an awful city to live in, but we moved in a town next to it and we can enjoy the city more now, that we are rarely visiting it. The historical areas of Timișoara are much more spread than the city center that you presented here. The restoration processes of the city take very long and they make the citizens feel like the city is permanently a construction zone. Also, if you go away from the “beautiful” center (15min of walking is enough) you will start seeing the true face of the city, not that clean, not that taken cared of and the city hall is demanding people to restore their homes in particular ways, which are much pricier because they have to look a certain way, being in historical areas, without really helping in any way (not even with the paper work needed to legally restore what can be seen from the street). Regarding the vaporetos, they are nice when you’ve got visitors, but there’s rarely anything on their route to be useful as a daily transportation method and they are also really slow. Good thing is that on their route weekends, they are free, although they don’t travel as far as they do during the week.
Anyway, you made a nice video and I’m glad you enjoyed this city and our country!
TJ, thanks for your detailed observations. I appreciate them. Glad you enjoyed the video.
2:33 The actual population of the city is a little over 330.000, but the romanian census was very poorly done so more than 25% of Timisoara's population was not reviewed, also a lot of people from the neighboring counties work and live in Timisoara, but their residence is declared to be in their hometowns. Therefore the average tourist might notice that the city seems way more populous than it's said to be.
With the metropolitan area the overall population might surpass 800.000.
Great video though!
Did you say "Cocesco" ( Nicolae Ceaușescu ) lol?
Really nice video though!
Hi Digital. Sorry about my poor Romanian pronunciation skills. I really do try to get it right but sometimes I just fail.
It's also called as Temesvar.
Yes, thanks Rasalt. I've heard Serbs refer to the city as Temesvar so I'm assuming that may be a Serbian pronunciation. 👍🏻
@@OUTBOUNDWITHRON Serbian called it to Temiswar. Both coming from hungarian Temesvar, literally castle at the Temes (river)
Historical affiliations
Kingdom of Hungary (1212-1526)
Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (1526-1551)
Kingdom of Hungary (1551-1552)
Ottoman Empire (1552-1716)
Habsburg Monarchy (1718-1779)
Kingdom of Hungary (1779-1849)
Austrian Empire (1849-1867)
Austria-Hungary (1867-1918) (de jure Hungary until 1920)
Banat Republic (1918) (de facto)
Kingdom of Serbia (1918-1919) (de facto)
Kingdom of Romania (1920-1947) (de facto from 1919)
Romanian People's Republic (1947-1965)
Socialist Republic of Romania (1965-1989)
Romania (1989-present)
@@tromfserbians call it Temisvar not Temiswar but close enough
@@OUTBOUNDWITHRON Serbian is Temišvar, while Hungarian is Temesvár. We have many minorities in Banat brought as colonists by the Austro-Hungarians, or who simply migrated here, each with their own cultures and traditions. We respect them all and we all live together in peace. We are all Christians of various denominations, and share similar European values (the Muslim Turks were all kicked out a long time ago by Prince Eugene of Savoy and his Austro-Hungarian army).
@@OUTBOUNDWITHRON ist a hunagrian city and this is the real name.
@SanguisEt Terra * In toatä lumea au existat Imperii si monarhi pt cä asa a fost atunci .
Ungaria a fost ocupatä 400 de ani ...de Imperiul Ottoman si dupä aceea de Imperiul Austriac...
Acum sintem in anul 2024 si nu mai intereseazä pe nimeni ce a fost. Trecutul este trecut. PREZENTUL CONTEAZÄ !!!!!!
Hi Elena. Thanks for writing me. I respect your opinion. But I disagree with it strongly. Many people care about the past because understanding the past is critical to understanding the present. As George Santayana famously said: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
The Romanians are not descended from the people who formed the Roman legions who occupied only 14% of the territory of Getia for 175 years. The Romanians are the descendants of the primordial population on Earth. There is a Museum in Timisoara for the 'sanctuary from Parta' (locality 18 km away from Timisoara) having an age of approx. 6000 years. For foundation of Rome see mytological story of the Thracian - Getae from Troy, Eneas and the twins Romulus and Remus. The Getae were the bravest and most righteous of the Thracians - Herodot.
You are simply delusional...
Mesager, thanks for sharing your input. I hope you enjoyed the video.
Genetically, we are a mix of populations, but our language is very clearly derived from Latin.
@@wyqtor Come on, you're dark, and if I put myself on your mind, you'll feel how the light really works.
bullshit. a flaming one. romanians r mix of albanians and gypsies. nothing to rome. for example they r ortodox not chatolics like every latin nation.
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Maybe,but his explanations about the history of the places he visits makes him superior by a lot to superficial influencers who barely know in what contury and city they are
1. transylvania
2. temesvár
This unbearable stupid music which makes visiting Romania a boring experience…
stay away then :)
@screambeyond
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Pfffff, man, I've spent one month in Timisoara and it is a terribly dreadful place. What you are showing is the small historical center that you can see in one morning (and then leave). That centre has some nice facades, but it is only two huge empty esplanades, packed with very impersonal (and expensive) touristic terraces. All the rest, the real Timisoara is a huge and very sordid industrial-soviet village with nothing expect greyness. One thing that surprised me is the ridiculous pretentiousness of many places (and people) in that historical part, as if they think they are in a very trendy area of central London. Seriously..... much arrogance in the service, and people are way very rude and harsh compared with the rest of Romania. I would say it is more like a village of Serbia, rather than a city of Romania. This title of "European City of Culture" for 2023 is just so ridiculous, and perhaps that made this place so pretentious. The atmosphere here has absolutely nothing to do with culture. The only thing, perhaps, is that as the two squares are big and empty they can set an stage sometimes and organise musical events, but they are more entertainment than culture. The fact that they named this "city" a cultural capital shows you how much corruption there is here (and in the EU), because I cannot understand it, unless someone paid to someone to give Timisoara such title. I'm writing all this because it is precisely all the amount of youtubers that talk about Timisoara what made me come, and I can say they give a terribly deluded vision of what this place is.
Hi Screambeyond. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I don't share your dim view of Timisoara, but two people disagreeing is not a big deal. That said, you touch on something that's pretty much universally true throughout the world. The defining parts of cities--the parts that attract visitors--are most always very different from the non-tourist parts and in and of themselves those "other parts" wouldn't attract tourists at all. If we judged cities solely on the sum of their parts many people probably would stop going anywhere. Again, thanks for your input.