Reduta Palace Cluj-Napoca

The building of Reduta Palace located on 21 Memorandumului (Memorandum) Street is an impressive classicist building with two floors on the location where in the 18th century it was Calul Balan (Blonde Horse) Inn, which was transformed afterwards in military school.

The building was then recovered, demolished and on its place was built the current building intended to become the central area of community public life – balls, concerts, meetings of local authorities. It had a room with balconies with a capacity of up to 1.000 persons.

This building housed many meetings of the Transylvanian Diet, as well as concerts of Frantz Liszt and George Enescu. In this building, in 1894, it took place the Trial of the Memorandum Signatories and in the present it houses the collections of the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania.