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Zápolya House, Ioan Raica Town Museum

Muzeul Municipal Ioan Raica
Zápolya House, Ioan Raica Town Museum
Muzeul Municipal Ioan Raica
Zapolya building sebes
Oguszt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
house
seat of an institution
Current function:
museum
Settlement:
Szászsebes, Sebeș
Address:
Piața Primăriei 3
Historical Hungarian county:
Szeben
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.9579032233, 23.5695978476
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History

King John I of Hungary (Szapolyai János) died in 1540 in the Zápolya House (Königshaus) on the Main Square. The one-storey building originally dates from the 15th century and was extended in the 16th century. Its courtyard entrance is guarded by two stone lions from the Roman period. It was built for the assembly of Szászsebes szék (Szászsebes Seat, a Saxon administrative unit centered in Szászsebes). In the time of the Principality of Transylvania it was the residence of princes and the venue of country assemblies. It houses the Ioan Raica Museum with exhibitions of books, town history, fine arts, Romanian and Saxon folk art. Its African ethnographic and natural history material was bequeathed by Franz Binder, who owned the town pharmacy.

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