Maxim Valentina Hilohi Mihai Adrian Grupa 8103

1. STUDENTS` SCIENTIFIC
SYMPOSIUM USAMV MIEADR
2018
Description of the village of Rimetea
Hilohi Mihai – Adrian, MIEADR IEA, GROUP 8103
Maxim Valentina, MIEARD IEA, GROUP 8103
¹University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Romania
59 Mărăşti Boulevard, District 1, 011464, Bucharest Romania
You’ve found one of the last places where rural European medieval life remains intact; where peasants live
off the land as countless generations did before them; where tiny villages, steeped in local customs and
history, sit among rolling hills and dreamy landscapes.
Keywords: medieval life, villages, history, landscapes
Rimetea and the Piatra Secuiului
Located in Alba county, Rimetea is probably the most beautiful village in Romania, being the very first settlement in the country to be awarded the
title of UNESCO World Heritage Site, and considered unique in the world for its pristine white houses, seemingly unaffected by the passing of time. In
its eight centuries of uninterrupted inhabitance, Rimetea saw a series of antagonistic periods, going from an ordinary medieval village to a prosperous
city in the 17th and 18th centuries, entering a long decline at the end of the 19th century that lasted until the end of the 20th century and finally
returning to being an ordinary, but very beautiful village in the foothills of the Apuseni Mountains. In the east the village is dominated by the Piatra
Secuiului and the Tarșa. Piatra Secuiului is a calcarous massif, long and bare, split into two parts by a ravine (meaning that from May to September,
people living in the northern part of the village experience two sunrises).
The economic activities diversified after 1989 and especially after 1996. In addition to agricultural and zootechnical activities (various crops, mill, milk
collection center), other economic production units operate in the locality, especially in the carpentry field. But the main economic activity is
agrotourism.
The varied anthropic heritage of the village appeared in several different historical eras. Most heritage sites date back to the 17th-19th centuries.
These include:
about 200 traditional secular buildings (houses, stables, workshops, etc.) built between the 17th and 19th centuries, the oldest house in the village is
the home of a miner, built in 1668 and renovated after 2004; the oldest functional water mill in the Apuseni Mountains, 300 m from the village center,
built in 1752 by Toroczkai Klára, is still used occasionally by locals; the traces of some iron mines (mines, beginning of unconditioned galleries, etc.);
family graves digging in the rock, unique in Romania, used from generation to generation, the current demographic decline makes the digging of new
graves in the rock, so that the present people are buried in the tombs of the ancestors; on some gates there are plaques showing the various objects
(ladder, bucket, shovel, etc.) with which the household contributed to the collective effort in case of fire; the Unitarian church, sec. XVII-XVIII (the tower
was completed in 1670, and the ship in 1796), the Orthodox monastery built in the late '90s between Rimetea and Buru.
Rimetea is surrounded by a natural environment of an outstanding beauty that cannot be compared to another village.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Coordinating teacher: Mihai – Daniel Frumușelu
REFERENCES
http://www.transylvaniatourist.com/rimetea-
torocko-and-the-piatra-secuiului-szekelyko-
szekely-rock/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimetea
http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5683
/
„When several villages are united in a single
complete community, large enough to be
nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes
into existence, originating in the bare needs
of life, and continuing in existence for the
sake of a good life.”
- Aristotle -