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Mikes Palace

Mikes Palace
Cluj Palatul Mikes2 Piata Muzeuui 4
Wikizoli, CC BY-SA 3.0 RO, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
palace
Current function:
n/a
Settlement:
Kolozsvár, Cluj-Napoca
Address:
Piața Muzeului 7
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.7718518407, 23.5870109494
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History

In 1790, Governor Bánffy György moved the seat of the government of Transylvania (Gubernium) from Nagyszeben to Kolozsvár. Then the late baroque palace of the aristocratic Mikes family of Székely origin was built. Mikes János, who died in 1815, was a government councillor. In the 1870s, it was converted into a tenement house in the eclectic style.

Source:  csemadok.sk
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