Heritage of Timișoara: Solving the puzzle of the city’s patrimony one building at a time

Timișoara, the western Romania city that is this year one of the holders of the European Capital of Culture title, has long been known for its architectural heritage, but how much of it is mapped and identified is a different aspect. Enter the project Heritage of Timișoara, where a team of the Prin Banat Association and many volunteers work to unearth the stories of the city’s buildings and make them available to the public to aid in the effort to preserve and raise interest in the city’s architectural legacy.

The project, which entails the mapping of the built heritage in various neighborhoods of Timișoara, is one of several run by Prin Banat. In its other initiatives, the association explored the phenomenon of migration in the region of Banat with the Moving Fireplaces project, it is implementing the Ambulance for Monuments – Banat initiative in the counties of Timiș and Caraș-Severin, and it has also documented the phenomenon of the “ghosts” in the list of the county’s historic monuments, namely those houses in rural areas that are included in official records but in reality no longer exist.