25 YEARS IN THE SERVICE OF ROMANIAN HERITAGE AND COMMUNITIES
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As part of a series of brunches organised south of the Carpathian Mountains, My Secret Romania and My Transilvania Association arranged for another one on the 27th of July in the garden of the Restorers’ House, no.322, Urşi village
The event set out to explore the local cuisine as a means to discover the history and culture of Northern Oltenia.
16 courses prepared by the local community were thus sampled by the participants. A famous vegetarian dish from Oltenia called „umplutura” and made out of bread and potatoes, present during any family oder social gathering, was presented. Among other foods also: churned butter , whey cheese, curd, tomatoes with polenta (stewlike), loboda soup, kidney bean soup, sponge cake, plum jam cake with walnuts and others.
The first two hours were spent on gastronomy and the next two were dedicated to culture. The 30 guests of the community in Urşi took part in a demonstration of cross craftsmanship, offered by the village’s cross maker, Mr. Costel Amza, a pottery show by the potter Mihai Biscu from Horezu, and also went through a guided tour of the wooden church in Urşi.
Photo: Călin Stan
IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE THAT WE ANNOUNCE THE SUCCESSFUL GATHERING OF FUNDS FOR THE FRESCO OF URŞI WOODEN CHURCH!
Special thanks go to the Holcim Romania, Stoica and Co., Feeder, Cărturești Foundation and the Zeppelin magazine, as well as to the anonymous friends of the Pro Patrimonio Foundation, who replied to our fundraising and awareness campaign to salvage the church and its splendid interior and exterior frescoes.
We gathered 12.567 euro from donations on the French website DARTAGNANS, overcoming the minimum of 12.000 euro imposed. At the same time, the campaign in Romania accumulated 4.300 euro.
We put an end in this way to a decade of struggle to save both the church and its splendid interior and exterior frescoes. It was technical and at the same time human adventure of considerable importance, carried on over all these years by the Pro Patrimonio team and all our volunteers and supporters.
Ursi wooden church, small in size but great in historical and artistic consequence, would like to thank you for a second chance at life!
A big thank you to everyone who donated, big or small, to everyone who came to support this humble rural sanctuary, whose community will now be able to enjoy it again.
The church Annunciation welcomes your visit!
