Acasa17 Greetings from Romania9

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Greetings
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from
Romania
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The wooden Churches of Maramures were built after
the Hungarian King forbade the people in this
area to build stone churches which could have
been used as fortifications like the ones built
by the Saxons in Transylvania
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There is a strong tradition of building wooden
churches right across Eastern Europe, from
Karelia and northern Russia all the way to the
Adriatic, but in terms of both quality and
quantity the richest examples are in Maramures  
Folk festival Pasul de Prislop Romania
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From 1278 the Orthodox Romanians were forbidden
by their Catholic Hungarian overlords to build
churches in stone, and so used wood to ape Gothic
developments.  In general, the walls are built of
blockwork (squared.off logs laid horizontally)
with intricate joints, cantilevered out in places
to form brackets or consoles supporting the
eaves  
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Harnicesti
Lapus
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Staircase in the new church
The Monastery Synaxis of the 12 Holy Apostles"
from Bârsana
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Desesti pensiunea Anca
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Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Ieud
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Most of the Maramure? churches were rebuilt after
the last Tatar rid in 1717, acquiring large
porches and tall towers, often with four
corner-pinnacles, clearly derived from the
masonry architecture of the Transylvanian cities
Manastirea Ieud Sfintii Trei Ierarhi
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Since 1989 there has been a renaissance of the
Uniate (Greco-Catholic) faith, repressed under
Communism and forcibly merged with the Romanian
Orthodox Church
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Miya Kosei was born in 1937 in Tokyo. He studied
literature, art, history and ethnology, economics
and sociology. He came first time in Romania in
1965. He likes very much Maramures and visited it
hundred times. Many of his books and volumes of
photos are dedicated to Romania and Maramures
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Plopis, UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Church of the Holy Parasceve, Poienile
Izei UNESCO World Heritage Site
Church of the Holy Archangels, Surdesti UNESCO
World Heritage Site
Church of the Holy Archangels, Surdesti
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St Archangels Wooden Church (1860), Razoare
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Church of the Holy Archangels, Rogoz UNESCO
World Heritage Site
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Peri
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Autumn in Maramures
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Spring -Costiui, Rona de Sus, Maramures
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Baia Mare Orthodox Cathedral
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Baia Mare Sfatul batrânilor Vida Geza, 1971
(Dacian myth of the wise elderly called
Tarabostes)
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Sapânta is a commune in Maramures County in
northern Romania, 15 kilometers northwest of
Sighet and just south of the Tisza River. It is
known for its "Merry Cemetery"  
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Carei Romanian Soldier Monument, 1964 Sculptor
Vida Geza (1913-1980)
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Satu Mare
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Satu Mare, Hotel Dacia 1902
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Satu Mare, Catedrala Greco-Catolica Sf.
Arhangheli Mihail si Gavriil, 1932-1937
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The church was built in the inter- war period
between 1932 and 1937. The style of the
construction is inspired from the traditional
Romanian architecture with a dome erected over
the walls of the nave through an intermediary
level, the pronave flanked by two side towers,
with the monumental entrance portal, drawn by an
archivolt with profiles ornamented with rope
moulding and acanthus stalks
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Forest railway in Valea Vaserului in Maramures
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Mocanita from the Vaser Valley" forest railway
in Viseu de Sus is located in the north of
Romania, on the border with Ukraine
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