Castles, Citadels, Architectural Curiosities
The Pyramid of Violins - Reghin
The Pyramid of Violins, the work of Barothy Adam, is a monument dedicated to violin artists. Reghin is known in the world as the City of Violins or, more recently, the New Cremone, names it has received because of the violins that are made here. The monument in front of the evangelical church has a height of 7.30 meters and its tip suggests the spread of musical sounds in space. Nowadays, the great concert halls of the world are echoed also by the accords of the instruments created here in the "City of the Violins", both within the two musical instruments factories, but also in the many workshops of luthier's workshops.
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Coat of Arms Fountain- Reghin
At the end of Salt Street, on the eastern side of "Petru Maior" Square, you will find a fountain where the old coat of arms of Reghin are represented. The first from the left is found in a double copy at the Evangelical Church. The coat of arms has the shape of a shield split in two almost equal parts, carved concavely. The symbols on the coat of arms are a Lily of the Dew, and a six-ray star in the senestra. On a the band there is the OPR motto (Oppidum Privilegiatum Regun), which means Reghin Privileged Market. In the middle you can see the coat of arms from 1848. This is originally found on the front of the former military hospital, at no. 95, Mihai Viteazu Street. We find a simplified version at the Fountain of the Emblems: a gunner in broad hat holding a horn to his mouth and lance resting on his left arm. The last coat of arms is the one from 1934. The relief depicts a messenger wearing a hat on a raft moving on waves, symbolizing river Mureș. Above the shield there is a wall column with three towers.
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