Huniade Castle

The Huniade Castle (Romanian: Castelul

Huniade, Hungarian: Hunyadi kastély) is the oldest
monument of Timişoara, built between 1443 and
1447 by John Hunyadi and Paolo Santini de
Duccio over the old royal castle dating from the
14th century (built during the reign of Charles I
Robert).
The castle was rebuilt by the Turkish pashas in the
17th century and by Prince Eugene of Savoy in the
18th century. The structure owes its present
appearance to the 1850s reconstruction campaign.
It houses the History Section and
the Natural Sciences Section of the Banat
Museum.
In front of the museum there are two lamps
reminding that Timişoara was the first European
town to have introduced electric public lighting in
12 November 1884.