The Capitoline Wolf of Timisoara is a bronze copy of the Roman statue of the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, mounted on a tall stone column at the centre of Victory Square. The statue marks the symbolic Latin identity of the Romanian nation — the descent (claimed since the Renaissance) from the Roman settlers of Dacia in the 2nd century AD.
The original statue was a 1926 gift from Italy. It was removed by the post-1948 Communist regime, kept in storage, and replaced after the 1989 revolution. The square around it was re-paved in the early 2000s and the wolf moved a few metres to its current commanding position at the centre of the long Victory Square axis. The view from the wolf back toward the cathedral is one of the city's classic photographs.