The Olympic pool from Cluj-Napoca, as the inhabitants call it, is in
a continuous process of modernization. It is destined to the general
public: adults, children, students, pupils, UTCN students, employees
and retired persons. Centers for swimming learning: 10 classes.
Individual subscriptions for children, adults, subscriptions for an
entire class and for kindergarden.
The Universitas Swimming Complex, situated in Iuliu Hatieganu sports
park, completes the complex of sports facilities (terrains and sports
halls), which are part of Babes-Bolyai University property. It was
inaugurated on the 27th of September 2009 and on the 1st of February
2010 it was actually opened for swimming teaching, but also for the
public.
It is first of all a teaching base for F.E.F.S (Faculty of Sports and
Physical Education) students, who have daily swimming classes; a
recreational spot for other persons, but also a spot where children
and adults can learn how to swim.
The complex has an Olympic pool (50 x 20.6 meters), with 8 lanes
provided with block-starts; a water temperature of 26-28 C degrees,
and an environment temperature of 28-30 C degrees and it has a depth
of 1.80-2.00 meters. The quality of the water is permanently checked,
from a chemical and microbiological point of view, by an ultramodern
and automatic water treatment system.
It is a place that wants to keep up with the latest fashion and music
trends. By continuous development we try to create a club for all age
groups. From students to middle-aged persons, everyone is welcome at
After Eight. Theme parties, with different genres of music, student
nights, concerts of well known artists, these are all in the club’s
schedule.
The Vivarium was built between 1998 and 2001 out of the Babes-Bolyai
University and the Biology and Geology Faculty funds. It contains
approximately 57 animal species. When it opened in 2001, it only
sheltered a collection of reptiles and amphibians. Currently,
alongside the reptile collection, the Vivarium also hosts 10 fish
species, 9 micro mammal species and 6 bird species, out of which we
can mention the Puff Adder, the Rainbow Boa, the leopard gecko, the
Nile monitor, the chinchilla, the Dobrogea turtle, the salamander etc.
Entry fee: Adults: 5 RON Children, students: 2.5 RON Biology
students, military personnel, disabled: free
The Zoological Museum is integrated in the Babes-Bolyai University
Patrimony and it consists of several scientific animal collections,
currently containing over 300,000 exhibition pieces. The exhibition is
accessible to the public, to biology students and to specialists. The
exhibition pieces are preserved in different ways: stuffed, dried, in
preserving liquids and as skeletons. The pieces are arranged in
phylogenetic order, reflecting the evolution of the animal world from
simple to complex, and as dioramas, displaying the interrelations
between the species that form the animal world. Thematic
insectariums are also exhibited, showing the variety of butterfly
sizes in wet and dry seasons, the match of sizes and color between the
butterflies and the environment in which they live in, and mimesis at
butterflies and warbles, as well as stages of the formation of the
silk wire at the silk butterfly (Bombix mori). There are showed
aspects of the thicket birds’ life with the types of nests that
these birds are building, as well as the ensemble image with the fauna
of the Bărăgan Plain. The cabinet with humming birds draws the
attention through the variation of the changing colors according to
the light that falls onto their bodies; in the focused image of the
area in which the bigwigs (Oriolus oriolus) are exhibited, one can see
the difference of color between the male and female, the place where
the nest is built, and the process of egg-laying. Another
representative ensemble image shows the struggle for survival in
winter in a forest form our region and it represents an explicit piece
of well documented space. Entry fee: Adults: 5 RON Children: 2,5 RON
Students: 2,5 RON Biology students, military personnel, disabled:
free entrance
The first fortification in Cluj-Mănăştur (60, Mănăştur Street),
consisting of ground palisade and defense ditch, dates from the 10th
century. In the 11th century a Benedictine convent was to be found
here, that was destroyed by the Tatar invasion in 1241.
The current church building belonged to the Abbacy of Monasterium
Beatae Mariae Virginis of Clus-Monostra. Patron is the Assumption of
the Virgin Mary; the building kept important documents in time.
In 1437, the Convention of Cluj-Mănăştur sealed understandings
between the gentry and the peasants uprising in Bobâlna. Anthony
the Great, the peasants’ rebel chieftain, was executed here.
The church was partially destroyed by a hit (in the 16th century),
then, by the Tatar invasion in the middle of the 17th century. Only in
the 19th century, the church’s nave, the arches and choir walls
were rebuilt by Roman Catholics.
In the communist period, the church was given to the Romanian Orthodox
religion, and during 1991 - 1994 was used jointly by the Romanian
Orthodox Church and by the Roman Catholic Church. After 1994, the
building has returned to the Catholics and entered a broader process
of restoration.
