Iași — Education, music and hotels

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Iași, Romania · 4 places documented
Iași — Education, music and hotels

Iași holds 4 places documented in this archive, among them Casa Alecu Balș — the Iași House where Romanian Theatre and Liszt both got a First Hearing, Cobza and Hotel Traian — Iași.

What this page is

This page gathers what Cultural Heritage Online documents in Iași, Romania: the entries are the ones already published, each with its own sources, its position and its photographs. It is the shortest way to everything we hold in the city, and it is updated as the archive grows.

Key facts

  • Country: Romania
  • Places in this archive: 4
  • Centre of the documented entries: 47.1625°N, 27.5868°E

Places documented in Iași

  • Casa Alecu Balș — the Iași House where Romanian Theatre and Liszt both got a First Hearing — A house on Strada Cuza Voda in Iasi whose first-floor salon saw the first play performed in Romanian in 1817 and a concert by Franz Liszt in
  • Cobza — A pear-shaped lute of ancient Balkan origin, the cobza remains the heartbeat of Romanian and Moldovan folk music—played solo or in ensemble,
  • Hotel Traian — Iași — The only hotel in the world built with a Gustave Eiffel iron structure — a Neo-Renaissance palace commissioned for the 400th anniversary of
  • Iași National Theatre — Romania's oldest national theatre and home to the Romanian National Opera, named after celebrated playwright Vasile Alecsandri in 1956.

Sources

The entries listed above are the source of the counts, the names and the position on this page.

Editorial text © Cultural Heritage Online, 2026. No hero image in this first build: an image of the city is added only with an author and a verified licence.

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