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Dicasterial Palace

Q: What are the opening hours of Dicasterial Palace?

Opening hours at Dicasterial Palace: daily open 24 hours. The exterior can be seen at any time, from the surrounding streets. The interior cannot be visited: people enter the building, after a security check, only for hearings and business with the court.

Directions

The palace's long façade on a pedestrian street, with the broad rusticated ground floor and the portal with large wooden doors

Fred Romero from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0

The corner of the building seen from the street under a clear sky, with the tall façades, arched windows and cornice

Elisabeth Packi · Public domain

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Hours today

Open now

Open 24 hours

Ticket

Free

the exterior can be seen from the street

Visit duration

15 min

exterior only

With kids

Yes

just a stop on the street

Parking

Yes, paid

on the streets in the centre

Best season

All year round

the exterior can be seen all year

About Dicasterial Palace

The Dicasterial Palace fills an entire block in Cetate, between Piața Țepeș Vodă and the surrounding streets, and for a long time it was the largest building in Timișoara. It was built between 1855 and 1860, on the site of an older 18th-century building, as the seat of the administration of the Voivodeship of Serbia and the Banat of Temeschwar, an institution dissolved in 1860. The name comes from the "dicasteries", the administrative offices that were meant to work here.

The architecture is historicist, with Italian Renaissance elements, inspired by Florentine palaces: straight façades with arched windows and rusticated stone on the ground floor. The building has three storeys around three inner courtyards. Today it houses the Timișoara District Court, the Timiș Tribunal and the Timișoara Court of Appeal.

Information verified on 29 October 2026.

Don't miss

The long façades, with the ground floor of broad rusticated stone and tall arched windows, in Florentine spirit.
The portal with large wooden doors on the pedestrian street.
The whole mass of the building, seen from the corner of the building, with its cornice and hipped roof.
The sheer scale: for a long time the largest building in the city, with three inner courtyards.

Good to know before you go

Getting there

By car: the palace is in Cetate, in Timișoara's historic centre; it is ~3.9 km (~7 minutes) from the North Station (Gara de Nord), and some streets in the centre have restricted traffic and few parking spaces.

Public transport: from the North Station or other districts take a tram or bus to the centre, then walk; Piața Unirii is a few hundred metres away.

Where to park

The building has no visitor car park. In the centre you park on the streets, for a fee, and spaces are few; it is easier to leave the car further away and come on foot.

Fees & discounts

The interior cannot be visited, so there is no ticket; the exterior can be seen free of charge from the street.

Rules

The palace houses working courts: people enter the building, after a security check, only for hearings and business with the court. The exterior can be photographed from public space.