Statue Of Capitoline Wolf Cluj-Napoca

The statue of Capitoline Wolf from Cluj, also named the Statue of the Wolf, is a copy of the Capitoline Wolf from Roma. In 1921, the Italian state donates two copies of the statue of Wolf with Romulus and Remus – the mythological founders of Rome – one of them reaching Cluj. It was located in Piata Unirii (Union Square), in front of the statue of Matthias Corvinus. After the dictate from Viena, when Cluj entered under Horthyst administration, the statue was moved to Sibiu.

After the Second World War the statue returned to Cluj and at the suggestion of Constantin Daicoviciu professor it was placed in front of the central office of “Babes-Bolyai” University in 1967, from 1973 returning to Piata Unirii (Union Square). In 1994 it was taken over by the National History Museum of Transylvania for restoration, in the present being located on Eroilor Boulevard. The sculpture is made of bronze and on the pedestal appears the inscription in Latin language: ”Alla Citta de Clvj, Roma madre, MCMXXI”.