CULTURAL - BAROQUE TOURISM: VIENNESE INFLUENCES IN TIMISOARA

Abstract

TimiÅŸoara is a baroque city in its essence, although its baroque only rarely takes spectacular shapes. Besides the obvious external forms, it has more subtle aspects which can be highlighted with ease through a city tour. The baroque style suggests movement, energy, tension. Care for detail, intensity and the direct message are intensely experienced in the baroque art from TimiÅŸoara. This style is the oldest in the city, being implemented by the Habsburg domination. TimiÅŸoara has an abundance of baroque historical monuments, but just like the other localities in Romania, is facing an acute shortage of funds for the restoration and the valorization of its objectives. However, TimiÅŸoara recently has entered a long period of rehabilitation, which promises a final worthy of its prestige of the multicultural centre polarizing great values that once was holding.