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      E-MAIL us: gelutrandafir [at] yahoo.com, CALL us +40-723.303.310

      Blogging on travel: Of Routes & Roses

      October 26, 2018
      Carta Abbey

      Carta Abbey – Cistercians’ easternmost outpost in Europe

      An Evangelical parish nowadays, the Carta Abbey was built around 1200 by Burgundian Cistercian monks.
      October 28, 2018
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      Wooden Churches of Maramures

      The wooden cathedrals of the Romanian peasants’ faith.
      October 28, 2018
      Maramures - sighet prison memorial

      The Sighet Memorial

      Sighet Memorial. The dreaded Communist prison has been converted in a Memorial to the victims and the resistance against dictatorship.  

      Castles

      Citadels

      Fortified Churches

      March 17, 2023
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      Domesticated and eventually abandoned. The sad story of the pigeons, myth or truth?
      A few months ago my youngest daughter, a veterinary student, told me that we humans would have abandoned pigeons.
      November 29, 2022
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      BREB Village, Maramures
      Nestled in a valley beneath the Gutâi Mountains and bypassed by any national or county road, amongst the villages of Maramures, the village of Breb has succeeded most in preserving the old traditional wooden houses.
      November 29, 2022
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      Transylvanian autumn flavour – the Mosna Cabbage Festival
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      November 22, 2022
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      The Potters’ Church, a Moldavian presence in Wallachia’s ancient capital
      The Potters' Church of Curtea de Arges - ancient capital of Wallachia principality - uses some models of Moldavian churches since it was built by the Moldavian craftsmen established here.
      November 19, 2021
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      Surdesti wooden church: 300 years of carpentry craftsmanship
      October 11, 2021
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      Semantron call to prayer at Moldovita
      Built in 1532 by Petru Rares, the son of the famous Moldavian prince Stephen the Great, the church of the Orthodox convent of Moldovita is among the eight Romanian painted churches included on UNESCO World Heritage list.