The walk down the C.D. Loga Boulevard, from the Prefecture to the Town Hall, represents a journey not only through space, as it seems normal, but also through time. After the first segment, occupied predominantly by public buildings and bourgeois villas built around the 1900s, as we cross the Michelangelo Street, we enter the interwar period: the villas and multi-apartment buildings built here reflect the changing of social and economic …

Anton Schmidt was born on May 20, 1786, in the family of a teacher in Mako. At the age of 10, after becoming an orphan, his older sister, who was married in Aradul Nou, started to take care of him. She wished for a better future for her little brother, so she decided to give him as a disciple to a master brass worker. The child, however, wanted to become …

On May 15, 1815, a novelty emerged in the cultural landscape of Timisoara: the opening of the first public library, that had a reading room and also the possibility of lending the books, from Banat and the entire Habsburg Empire. The library contained around 4,000 volumes, with works in German, French, Latin, Hungarian, etc., listed in a catalog published a year later. Access to volumes was based on a monthly …