The National College „Andrei Şaguna”, the first Romanian gymnasium of Brasov, has been erected between 1851 and 1856, after the plans of the architect Ştefan Emilian, the foundation-stone being placed in the presence of the Metropolitan Bishop of the Orthodox Bishopric of Transylvania , Andrei Şaguna (1809-1873). The construction is representative for the neoclassic architecture on the territory of nowadays Romania; the highschool used to be across the time a prestigious educational institution, on which are linked the names of same remarkable personalities of the Romanian intellectuality, among which Titu Maiorescu, Octavian Goga or Lucian Blaga. The festive hall of the gymnasium, with its ceiling decorated by the painter Iosif Clement with allegorical paintings, in 1862, hosted the opening of the operetta „Crai Nou” of the composer Ciprian Porumbescu, music teacher of the gymnasium between 1881 and 1883.
“Ştefan Baciu” House, on Dr. Gheorghe Baiulescu Street is the first museum dedicated to a Romanian from Overseas, set up inside the building erected after the plans of the architect of Brasov Kálmán Halász (1930-1931). Ştefan Baciu (1918-1993) is the author of more than 100 tomes of poetry, memoires, essays, translations and more than 5000 articles and studies, published in the Romanian, German, French, Latin-American, North-American and Swiss press. Ştefan Baciu was citizen of honour of Rio de Janeiro, consul of Bolivia in Honolulu-Hawaii and emeritus professor of the University of Honolulu-Hawaii.
In the upper part of Dr. Gheorghe Baiulescu Street, in the area called once “Pe Ciocrac”, there is The Orthodox Church Cuvioasa Paraschiva and the Groaveri graveyard (1874-1876), which conserves the graves of same remarkable personalities of the town, such as Andrei Mureşianu (1816-1863), the composer Iacob Mureşianu (1812-1887), the dean Bartolomeu Baiulescu (1831-1909), the folklorist Andrei Bârseanu (1858-1922), the philologist Sextil Puşcariu (1877-1948), the writer Virgil Oniţiu (1864-1915), the historian Ion Colan (1902-1969).