The bronze Capitoline Wolf on Eroilor Avenue is one of several copies Mussolini's Italy gifted to Romania in 1921 to underline the country's claim to Latin descent — the original is in Rome's Capitoline Museums and shows the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus. Cluj's version was placed near the heart of the city as a statement of Romanian-Latin identity.
It's a small monument but a culturally loaded one — and within easy walking distance of Piața Unirii on the route to the Orthodox Cathedral. Take a moment to read the inscription if you read Italian.