Season’s greetings dear readers! I hope you enjoyed this year’s articles on the delightful period architecture from this region of South East Europe!
Valentin Mandache, expert in Romania’s historic houses
I envisioned the above composition as an allegory about the tribulations and resilience of Romania’s built historic landscape, which has evolved in a part of Europe that for the most part of the last half millennium has been at the capricious crossroads of confronting empires.
Valentin Mandache, architectural historian 