Tirgu Mures, Romania Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

TÂRGU MURES is still at heart Marosvásárhely , one of the great Magyar cities of Transylvania, although the Magyar influence has been diluted by recent Romanian and Gypsy immigration. The city was briefly notorious as a centre of ethnic tension, with riots in March 1990, largely stirred up by the right-wing extremists of the Vatra with government connivance, in which at least three died, and the desecration of Jewish graves in May of the same year. It is more reputably known as a centre of learning – its university is small, but both the medical and drama schools are renowned nationally; under … more »