Arad is a charming city situated on the Mures River in western Romania, close to the border with Hungary. The city is particularly well-known for its multiculturalism, due to the mix of ethnic groups who have inhabited it over the centuries, such as the Hungarians, Germans, Ottomans, and finally Romanians. Points of interest include the Neoclassical National Theatre, the Neo-Gothic Red Church, and the faux-Flemish Renaissance town hall building. This beautiful city is also known as 'The Little Vienna of Romania'. It was with this expression that Arad was defined by the historian, poet and Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Iorga at the beginning of the nineteenth century, on the occasion of his visit to the city.