MAIN ATTRACTIONS:
Lungă Street
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Lungă Street, the main road of the historical suburb “Braşovul Vechi”, used to open in the Middle Age the commercial road of the town towards Moldavia. The street is bordered by historical buildings dating back to the XVIII-XXth centuries. Among the first buildings of the street, at the no. 5, there is the former hotel "București", where was accommodated Alexandru Ioan Cuza, ruler of Moldavia and Walachia since 1859, and prince of the United Principalities between 1862 and 1866, in his way to the exile. The event is recorded by the memorial plaque placed on the building which façade has been refashioned during the first decades of the XXth century.
On Bisericii Române Street, which crosses Lunga Street, there is the orthodox church “The Assumption of Virgin Mary” (1783), which illustrates the most widespread typology of the Romanian religious architecture of the south of Transylvania, which combines the planimetry of the cult area specific to the orthodoxy with decorative elements of the facades of Baroque origin and mural paintings of post-Brancoveanu tradition.
The Opera Braşov, founded in 1953 as Musical Theatre, functions inside the building erected between 1936-1938 in neo-Romanian style, following the initiative of Junii Braşovecheni Society, as a communitarian house.
At the end of Lunga Street, at the exit of the town towards the localities Cristian, Râşnov, Bran there is Saint Bartholomew Church, the most ancient architectural monument conserved in the town, dating back to the XIIIth century.
The church has an ethnographic museum, which hosts during summer cameral and pipe organ concerts.