CALEA REPUBLICII

This long pedestrian shopping street, full of cafés, is almost always bustling with activity. It's lined with colorful Baroque and Secession buildings, some of which have been beautifully restored. Art Nouveau gems include the Apollo Palace (no. 16), an immaculately white building dating from 1912, and the Stern Palace (no. 10), built in 1904, with its magnificent floral friezes inspired by traditional Hungarian motifs. And let's not forget the superb Moskovits Miksa Palace, with its petrol-blue walls, plant motifs and superb ironwork.