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The Cathedral Basilica of St. Mary is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oradea, begun in 1752 by Giovanni Battista Ricca and completed in 1780 by Franz Anton Hillebrandt in a classicising Baroque style. Inside are ceiling frescoes by Johann Nepomuk Schöpf and Ferenc Storno and a reliquary of King Saint Ladislaus.
Union Square is the main square of Oradea's New Town on the left bank of the Crișul Repede, laid out in the 18th century. It is framed by the Moon Church, the Roman Catholic Church of St. Ladislaus, the Black Eagle Palace, the Greek Catholic Bishop's Palace and the City Hall; the square was renovated in 2015.
The Black Eagle Palace is an Art Nouveau complex on Union Square, built in 1907–1908 to designs by Marcell Komor and Dezső Jakab for a hotel, casino, shops and offices. A glass-roofed passage with a stained-glass black eagle (1909) links three streets and is lined with cafés and shops; the interiors are not open to visitors.
The Moon Church is a Romanian Orthodox church on Union Square, built between 1784 and 1790 to plans by Jakab Éder in a late Baroque style with classicist details. Its tower holds a mechanism made by Georg Rueppe in 1793, a half-gilded, half-black sphere that turns to show the phases of the moon. It served as the Orthodox cathedral from 1920 to 2012.
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