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The 10 most popular Historic Houses of Romania articles in April 2012

01/05/201210/05/2012Valentin Mandache

ART DECO Bucharest building damaged through ignorance and avarice
The NEO-ROMANIAN ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: a brief guide on its origins and features
Earthquake Events in Bucharest and Their Effect on Historic Houses
Little Paris style wagon house
Art Nouveau ironwork ornaments
Art Deco service door
CASOTA CONAC: a magnificent Romanian period property with a great potential
Images from the Art Deco style walking tour on Saturday 7 April ’12
Mondrian like Art Deco – Modernist hallway floor patterns
Art Deco Era Wall & Doorway Lamps: Photomontage & Slide Show

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Chandelier in the nave of Rozavlea wooden church (built in 1717), Maramures. It is dated 1826, gifted by one Tomsha Ierina, as is written in the donor cartouche. #rozavlea #chandelier #woodenchurch #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

The chandelier in the nave of the 1700 built Poienile Izei wooden church, Maramures. #chandelier #woodenchurch #poienileizei #woodenchurch #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Chandelier in the 17th c built Budesti wooden church, Maramures. #budesti #chandelier #woodenchurch #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Chandelier in the shape of a cross in Bogdan Voda (1722 built) wooden church in Cuhea, Maramures. #chandelier #woodenchurch #cuhea #bogdanvoda #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

A chandelier in the shape of a seraphim in the 18th c built Calinesti wooden church, Maramures. #chandelier #seraphim #woodenchurch #maramures #calinesti #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Among the 18th c mystic intimacy of Calinesti wooden church in Maramures. #calinesti #woodenchurch #maramures #casedeepoca #southeasteurope #valentinmandache

The 1717 built Rozavlea, Maramures wooden church, with its off centre bell tower and steeple. It was Greek-Catholic for most of its history, Orthodox since the communist takeover of Romania in the late 1940s, if you get my drift. #woodenchurch #rozavlea #maramures #greekcatholic #uniate #orthodoxcommunism #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Having a stroll on the well preserved Roman road of Porolissum, at the frontier of the ancient Romania (aka the Roman Empire), in what is now the NW Transylvania. It was the equivalent of Hadrian Wall’s Vindolanda, but much larger and provided with an impressive amphitheatre. Beyond it, to the N, was the Barbaricum, what is now Maramures (the Free Dacians) and further away Ukraine (the Sarmats and Scythians). Photo from the recent tour of Maramures/ Oradea/ NW Transylvania. #porolissum #romanroad #dacianlimes #limes #transylvania #frontier #romanfrontier #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

A remnant of the Neolithic protective spirit/ man, which we see in the ten millennia ago ceramic decoration, still surviving in the art of the 19th and the 20th c peasants of Maramures, as seen in the collection of the Ethnographic Museum of Sighetul Marmatiei: the first four photos are a chained protective spirit (to not run away), which was affixed on the wall of a Maramures house; the following two is a the head of a spirit decorating the pillar of a derrick well, add the last image is a protective spirit represented on a Maramures gate. They are accomplished artistically and look like modernist sculptures, of the ones that inspired Brancusi. #neolithic #protectivespirit #woodsculpture #ethnography #maramures #sighetulmarmatiei #ethnographicmuseum #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

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