That glorious Baroque palace at no. 1 Piaţa Unirii hosts Timișoara superb art museum, noted for its collection of 90 works by the 20th-century portraitist and illustrator Corneliu Baba.

You can view his self-portraits, landscapes from Spain and Venice and portraits of prominent cultural figures like the composer George Enescu.

His works make up one of four departments, the other three containing decorative arts, European art and contemporary and historic painting from the Banat region, which has a supreme assortment of icons.