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Casa de la Rau Transylvania Romania |
  
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House I hope the picture gives you some feel for the style of the villa - more pictures later. The villa was built by local people using traditional building techniques. This means the walls are made of solid wooden beams, cladded with pine boards (lambriu) and the roof is of sita (wooden tiles). Inside through there is a layer of insulation behind plaster board, and the services of the house have been upgraded to western standards as far as possible. Consequently it has a modern electrical installation and LPG gas central heating. The Kitchen is a modern style, but built by a local carpenter, and with a useful range of appliances. There is a lot of pine furniture in the house built by local carpenters, and many rugs made in the valley and a few from other areas. The house was built with teaching yoga in mind, and so the lounge is large enough for groups of around 10 (5mx7m), but has comfortable furniture for when not in use as a practice space. As well as comfortable seating, the lounge has a music centre and satellite television. Below is a general descriptionof the area. If you want more background information on Romania please follow this link - Background to Romania. The Moieciu valley runs towards the western edges of the Bucegi mountains, and is often said to be one of the prettiest valleys in Romania. A small river flows down most of it's length and the valley is very open in some places, but closes down to short, narrow gorges in others. The sides are a mixture of tree covered slopes, and open meadows used for grazing animals and growing hay. In spring these are a picture of wild flowers. For the most part houses are built close to the narrow road in the centre of the valley. There are many traditional houses, and the valleys popularity has led to the building of many new houses, frequently modernised versions of older styles. In general these don't detract from the valley's beauty, and it still feels open and rural. Cheia, is a small collection of houses about half way up the valley. Cheia means gorge and the village sits in a wider break between two short sections of a narrow and steeply sided gorge. The single road which runs up the valley forks into two dead-end tracks in Moieciu de Sus. The left fork runs along and up the valley heading for the Bucegi mountains, eventually becoming a no-vehicle access route controlled by the Forestry Commision. The right fork, also still in Moieciu de Sus, winds alongside a small river to the end of the village, with a track going off to the right and up to the village of Fundata. |
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