St. Mary Square, Timișoara


St. Mary Square is a small square in Timișoara, located in the Iosefin district, at the intersection of 16 December 1989 Boulevard and Gheorghe Doja Street. It is part of the urban site Old Iosefin, classified as a historic monument. According to local tradition, Gheorghe Doja, the leader of the peasant uprising of 1514, was martyred here. Also here took place the first anti-communist demonstrations in Timișoara in 1989, demonstrations that would ignite the Romanian Revolution.