Romanian cultural day Presentation Thank you Simona Giangu
Traditional Romanian Costume Traditional Romania costume from Muntenia zone of the country. Handmade and hand embroidered. A folk costume has the value given by stitching and authenticity. At the same time, if it has a more complex, richer seam, the suit is more valuable. It can take up to hundreds of days for a full costume to be completed. The folk costume is over 100 years old, most often bequeathed from generation to generation. The Romanian popular costume finds its roots in the part of Thracian, Dacian and Getae ancestors and resembles that of the peoples of the Balkan Peninsula, of course with differences consisting of decorative and colourful details. For example, women’s portraits carved on Trajan’s Column in Rome after the Dacian Wars provide information about their clothing. Dacian women wore shirts rippled at the neck. Sleeves were either long and wide or short. The dress was long to the ground, over which sometimes was attached a wide draped mantle. In the feet, they wore leather sandals in summer and fur sandals in winter
The Merry Cemetery – Sapanta, Romania The Merry Cemetery (Romanian: Cimitirul Vesel pronounced [t͡ ʃimiˈtirul ˈvesel]) is a cemetery in the village of Săpânța, Maramureș County, Romania. The cemetery’s origins are linked with the name of Stan Ioan Pătraș, a local artist who sculpted the first tombstone crosses. In 1935, Pătraș carved the first epitaph and, as of the 1960s, more than 800 of such oak wood crosses came into sight. It is famous for its brightly coloured tombstones with naïve paintings describing, in an original and poetic manner, the people who are buried there in addition to scenes from their lives. The Merry Cemetery became an open-air museum and a national tourist attraction. It has been listed as one of the Seven Wonders of Romania by Imperator Travel. The unusual feature of this cemetery is that it diverges from the prevalent belief, culturally shared within European societies, that views death as something indelibly solemn. Connections with the local Dacian culture have been made, whose philosophical tenets presumably vouched for the immortality of the soul and the belief that death was a moment filled with joy and anticipation for a better life (see also Zalmoxianism). 26
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