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March 16, 2018
By Warren Singh-Bartlett If Transylvania’s Saxon churches, with their thick walls topped by towers, look a little like fortresses, that’s because in part, they were. Subjected to repeated invasion by the Mongols and later, the Ottomans, Saxon villagers fortified their churches, making them defensible and the larger ones even had rooms set aside for villagers to inhabit during a siege. […]
February 13, 2018
By Warren Singh-Bartlett Remember the legend of the Pied Piper? In 1284, the people of Hamelin, a town in the German province of Lower Saxony, hired a rat-catcher to help them with an infestation. Enchanting the rats with his music, the piper was able to lure them into a nearby river, drowning them. Possibly deciding the solution had been too […]
January 24, 2018
How to get up close to Europe’s magnificent megafauna If you want to see a bear in the wild in Europe, your best bet is to journey to the Carpathians. 60% of all the bears in Europe live in the region, along with wild boar, deer, foxes and other fascinating fauna like wolf and lynx. But at around 1,500 kilometres […]
January 11, 2018
By Warren Singh-Bartlett Hero or villain? History is full of people who can be viewed as either, depending on your perspective. Take Vlad III, the Wallachian prince known in Romanian as Vlad Tepeș, or Vlad the Impaler. Bloody sobriquet aside, to the Romanians and the Bulgarians, Vlad III is a hero, credited for having kept the relentless Ottoman advance into […]
December 20, 2017
Built many centuries ago, wooden churches in Romania are still sacred spaces for prayer in some villages. The collection below is just a snapshot of a lengthier study of the history and art behind them. All the images below have been obtained from NOI Media Print. The images appear in the book entitled “Wooden Churches from Romania” by Ioan Godea.
October 20, 2017
On a photo tour in the southwest region of Romania, we drove to Prisacina, a village lost in the Mehedinti Mountains. Nature and people amazed us with their purity and beauty.
