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Former Mercur Hotel

Former Mercur Hotel
RO BV Fagaras centru vechi
Daniel Predoiu at Romanian Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
hotel / tavern / guesthouse
Current function:
house
Address:
Strada Republicii 26
Historical Hungarian county:
Fogaras
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.8445533926, 24.9708771168
Google map:

History

The building, which also housed a hotel, a restaurant and a café, was also the social centre of the town, and the casino of Fogaras was located on its upper floor. The square was also once the site of the Chiba confectionery, which was the Hungarian poet Babits Mihály's favourite place in town.

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