It is a village of about 600 houses, all together forming a genuine outdoor museum.

1. University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest
FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT,ECONOMIC ENGINEERING IN AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Student:
Băjenaru Valentina Elena

2. As one starts on the road from Campulung or from Vatra Dornei towards Maramures
on the other side of the Eastern Carpathians, the route takes you in both cases
through the village of Ciocanesti. It is a village of about 600 houses, all together
forming a genuine outdoor museum. The walls of each of them wears traditional
motifs of the kind that we find on painted eggs in an array of shapes and colors
behind which lies a relatively recent tradition whose story we are about to tell in
what follows.

3. The name of Ciocanesti comes
from the main activity of the
inhabitants for centuries on
end, which is to beat iron. As a
matter of fact, many localities
carry in their name such clues
to ancient occupations of their
inhabitants. But Ciocanesti
would have been only a
stopover on the route of those
continuing their journey to the
country of Maramures if, in the
50’s of last century, a
housewife hadn’t had an
artistic vision that was to kick-
start an aesthetic
transformation of the village
that continues today.

4. It all started with the clever idea of ​​Leontina Taran, a housewife from the village
Ciocanest. Willing to adorn her house, she considered removing some models from
her traditional clothes and applying them on the walls by help of the villager
painter by the name of Dumitru Tomoioaga. That happened in 1950, and soon
Leontina’s house was declared a museum drawing a lot of attention. Other
villagers, seeing the success Leontina Taran enjoyed, were quick in mimicking her
and they too began to decorate their homes similarly

5. The houses thus resemble traditional Romanian embroidered peasant
blouses, embellished with motifs drawn mostly in red, green, black and
yellow. Even the church in the village has its exterior walls decorated with
floral motifs. The village has become a pearl of the region of Bukovina,
well placed in string of beauties which attract thousands of tourists every
season.

6. The houses are also painted in the interior and the walls
are decorated with leather vests, floral skirts and shirts,
all of extraordinary beauty painstakingly made and worn
by several generations. The village also hosts a Easter’s
painted eggs museum, another traditional craft
characteristic to the area.

8. I will let the pictures below speak for themselves about this village.

10. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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