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Transylvania / Romania

Rákóczi Stairs

Scările Rákóczi
Rákóczi Stairs
Scările Rákóczi
Original function:
street
Current function:
street
Historical Hungarian county:
Maros-Torda
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
46.5483002421, 24.5649699094
Google map:

History

This 70-step staircase was built in 1902 and named the Rákóczi Staircase, because Rákóczi Ferenc II, leader of the Hungarian War of Independence, was inaugurated as the Prince of Transylvania in Marosvásárhely on 5 April 1707. It was built by the architect Soós Pál.

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