Fortress of the sun. This is how the erst inhabitants called the church and the medieval courts in brick, raised in Tătărăştii de Sus, settlement documented in 1538. The historical monument is called the ruins of the Bălăceanu courts, after the landowner family, to whom tradition attributes the foundation of the imposing building, starting with […]
On Ilie Moromete’s plains, where there were once the vast woods of Teleorman (the Găvanu-Burdea plain), lived the landowners’ family Hrizea Bălăceanu 300 years ago. Also, the entire northern part of Teleorman county is under the Bălăceanu family „signature”, a large number of the settlements here being named after them (Balaci) or keeping some vestige […]
Ethnography is a science that classifies people of the world, it studies their composition, origin and spread, monitors the development in their material and spiritual culture, the morals and particularities of their way of life, their cultural and historical mutual ties etc. It is used in anthropology and some branches of sociology. The Ethnography Museum […]
There were many monastaries in the are, long time ago; some of these have lated, some not. The beginnings of the Saint Fanurie Monastary, between Balaci and Siliștea-Gumești, are far before it actual reconstruction. The monastary did not have such a happy fate, due to the military movements in the area. Years back, here was […]
Marin Preda Memorial House is settled in the old school building in Siliştea-Gumesti, where Marin Preda studied. The building was constructed in 1910, in a period of development of educational institutions in the countryside. Marin Preda Memorial House was inaugurated in 1982. Inside can be found images of the writer Marin Preda, manuscripts and objects […]
The church was raised in 7321 of the bizantine era, 1812-1813 of our era, in Osebiți-Blejești, on an estate. The church inscription, engraved on a wooden plaque, on which the church is datedm was demolished and is kept in the Bucharest Metropolitan storages. The tower over the porch is due to an 1883 restoration, the […]
The Zaharia Stancu Memorial House actually belonged to the writer’s sister, Lisaveta. The building was turned into a memorial house in 1994, displaying objects, documents, photos regarding the life and activity of poet and novel writer Zaharia Stancu (1902 – 1974) and now it also houses the communal library. In the first room of the […]
The train Station from Roșiorii de Vede is an historic monument built in 1889. In 1927, the royal family visited Roșiorii de Vede descending off the train in the historic train station. On 11 April 1944, the Ministry of Internal Affairs considers that within this station are organized sabotage actions against the German army. The […]
The Municipal History Museum in Roșiorii de Vede, through its purpose of an institution focused on human personality forming activity, registers, together with other educational factors, as an acute necessity of the town’s spiritual life. Here is where visitors come into contact with testimonies of the distant pat, over which time has carefully flown, giving […]
The bust of Nicolae Bălcescu was inaugurated in 1957. On June 29, 1819 was born in Bucharest Nicolae Bălcescu son of baker Barbu sin Petre the capitan and of Zinca Bălcescu. He attends the College of St. Sava having as teachers Florin Aaron and Heliade Rădulescu; the portrait of Bălcescu in his adolescence was made […]
