Baroque Palace in Oradea

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The Baroque Palace of Oradea (Romanian: Palatul Baroc din Oradea; Hungarian: Nagyváradi barokk palota), also known as the Roman Catholic Episcopal Palace of Oradea (Romanian: Palatul Episcopiei Romano-Catolice din Oradea; Hungarian: Nagyváradi római katolikus püspöki palota), of the city of Oradea in Bihor County, Romania, is a building that dates to the Baroque times.

History: It was founded in 1762 by the Baron Bishop Adam Patačić, as bishopric palace of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Magnovaradimum. Illustrious Viennese architect Franz Anton Hillebrandt, designer of many Austrian palaces and one of 18th century Europe's best, designed the palace and planned the city's posh side as Baroque quarter, while engineer A.J. Neumann was in charge of the massive palace's construction, complete with its 365 exterior windows resembling the days of the year and 120 large, extravagant rooms distributed on three floor plans. Construction on the building lasted from 1762 to 1777.

The architecture of the palace is of late Austrian Baroque style, a more sober and practical type compared to the highly ornamented French Baroque, for example. The building was meant to resemble on a smaller scale...