page_title: Arad, Romania
section_title: Monuments
hierarchical_section_title: Arad, Romania / Tourist attractions / Monuments
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: Hungária nőalak Aradon
context_page_description: Arad is the capital city of Arad County, historically situated in the region of Crișana, and having extended into the neighboring Banat region in the 20th century. Arad is the third largest city in Western Romania, behind Timișoara and Oradea, and the 12th largest in Romania, with a population of 159,704.
  A busy transportation hub on the Mureș River and an important cultural and industrial center, Arad has hosted one of the first music conservatories in Europe, one of the earliest normal schools in Europe, and the first car factory in Hungary and present-day Romania. Today, it is the seat of a Romanian Orthodox archbishop and features a Romanian Orthodox theological seminary and two universities.
  The city's multicultural heritage is owed to the fact that it has been part of the Kingdom of Hungary, the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, the Ottoman Temeşvar Eyalet, Principality of Transylvania, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and since 1920 Romania, having had significant populations of Hungarians, Germans, Jews, Serbs, Bulgarians and Roma at various points in its history. During the second half of the 19th century and the beginning on the 20th century, the city has experienced rapid development.
context_section_description: The Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, raised in 1729, baroque sculpture
  The monument of the Holy Trinity, raised in 1746 to commemorate the plague that swept the town in 1738-1740
  Reconciliation Park
  The Statue of Liberty, raised in 1890 by György Zala in the memory of the heroes of the Hungarian revolutionary army
  The Arch of Triumph, raised in 2004 by Ioan Bolborea in memory of the heroes of the 1848 - 1849 Romanian Revolution (fighting against the Hungarians)
  Martyrs' Cross, raised in 1936, in memory of the priests martyred between November 1918 and spring 1919
  The Bust of Vasile Goldiș (1862–1934)
  The Bust of Moise Nicoară (1784–1861)
caption: The Statue of Liberty
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