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but few truly no one such place as transylvania male dominated culture that nevertheless has its softer sides. ross of horses like a child. horses are like members of the family for us. romano. transylvania is a region with a long history and 5 for in traditions. it's a place where people enjoy life and are even at peace with the idea that one day coming to an end with financial aid, they could buy it. you know, a cemetery is the only one in the world, but people a lot of my problem of across the away from the cities. some places appear almost frozen in time. right in the heart of europe, the

low hanging clouds of mist, sinister legends, vampire stories. transylvania is perhaps best known for the saga of count dracula. brand castle is marketed as the counts home, but the region has much more to offer than spooky mets. its magnificent buildings are the backdrop to a dramatic history on gary ends, germans and romanians have shaped transylvania. in the far north, on the border with ukraine is not on board as the region historically. a part of transylvania is known for its skilful crafts people. and the elaborate wooden church is recognized by unesco squared heritage sites

in the small orthodox christian community of serpents, residents believe that death loves wood. they say that the whole of human life from the crib to the coffin is bound up with wood. and people here have an unusual view of death. this is especially evident in the symmetry of this village of 3000 precedents. when a person dies to get their very own personal memorial, a lovingly carved brightly painted wooden cross, a picture, and a poem, each one unique. tell the story of the deceased. honestly, implacably, for better or for worse. for 45 years to meet you pop has been carving crosses here a place the locals called the mary symmetry. this makes some something of a village chronicler. the plan is for a son in law, you want to one day follow in his footsteps. to do the job, one needs to know

a lot about the people that's offensive. well, this is the new when i split the dean, this is the whole village knows the story, this deceased women. good because everyone knew how badly she treated the family. especially as son in law and control, she repulsed him around and find me to have to dogs touch it, but then people knocked him for him to soccer. so i thought those you can the did you mean that they're shipping us outta yeah, cool. good off the back of the family asked me to make a cross that was a true memorial liar for chat local executives when yeah, yeah. she lou matt and chip outside of the day. i think i was like a and this is yeah. so it's a, this all colors, silver chest. it's a neat this cross that lies my mother and it all these unit that if she live just one day meal you oh, i'd be down that free credit to use with my others cross shuts. don't try to wake up, otherwise she'll come back home to

a new in teams may mean it. was it the but reactions for positive because it's probably the ones that i'd written anything wrong. so no, no problems. how she walked out is if you can say, like god, they put us on it's demitra alone, who decides which life event commemorates the deceased and above all, what information is included in the short poem? yes, tempered by this on a district, this is for a young man who dodge in a car accident and i wrote the following is national. i rest here to young age is my name is green cool guy and get one on the property. point myself, an expensive car much mercedes didn't last, long. queen died in my car flat before it did even left last night when life came to an end. so i think with the phone, you know, i'd at least have the pride media, but now i'm not even mike, right? preferred to net quasi final words of remembrance since

here, but with a wink and a notch. but to meet you has no intention of mocking the deceased. he carves paints and writes with one overarching aspiration, cook the new tea day, as the interest to change people's perspective on past the notion, a mary symmetry is the only one in the world, but people off about that rather than cry, no stipulation, just taking the sorrow out of death, a mission that became his life's work. over the years, the 67 year old has made a name for himself across romania cook, the geographically transylvania farms the center and the northwest of romania. the region is surrounded by the elongated mountain ranges of the carpet

and the fusion apple as seen as the unofficial capital of transylvania. with some 325000 residents. clues, it's romania, 2nd largest city, and the cultural economic and scientific center of transfer of ania. the formerly known as cows and thought it was founded by german settlers and the 13th century. the grand buildings and the old town testified to its great regional significance today, it's mostly young people out and about on the streets. clues is a university city representing a young and modern transylvania, an exception, and a region that's for the most part room and traditional in

the small towns and villages, there's an incredible sense of peace and quiet. here. people still have time for at least they take it on the roads. there are almost as many carriages as there are cars. horses are closely linked to the regions history to this day in transylvania. they're not just an important mode of transport. they're also a state of constantine ramos, is the proud owner of $31.00 horses. his farm isn't far from clues to hi below. ha, ha, ha. come to papa. how do you say come to papa? who's the best way? who's to michael? meantime, huh. constantine or costello, as everyone calls him, has a close, almost familial,

like bond with his horses almost on even with horses are the most beautiful animals on this planet. i have loved horses since i was a kid. pretty mother, when i was 8, i bought myself a donkey. i couldn't afford anything more luck about the food to but now a days, not only does costello have enough money to pursue his passion, he's also turned into a source of income, eastern breeding and selling horses for 30 years. the the list of, hey look here. so we the guy, come to papa, let give me your leg, the good boy. good boy. bravo! bravo. those, he's still young because that if you don't train him now he'll kick you in the face later. yes, to learn now. think just like a child, look up to you,

but as much as he goes fond of the animals, at some point, it's time to let them go. one of the regions most important markets is taking place tomorrow. stella, the mirror is due to change hands for so the negotiations are already in full swing. i'm totaled part. that means i've asked for 4500 years. i don't know if i'll get that. i have to convince the buyer in person. i'll try and negotiate the highest possible price only the potential buyer wants to see some new photos before meeting the horse tomorrow in the flash coastal rates room and ask send me crazy. a traditional romanian breed originally used us working animals today. they're primarily a status symbol at the upcoming horse market and g low. they're highly priced.

transylvania means beyond the far like i stick old carpet farse cover large areas of the region right up to the peaks of the car, pacey, and mountains. the few people who settled here live with and from nature, it sounds romantic, but it's not so easy. at 6 in the morning, the start of the working day for shepherd twi, desktop bush, even though today's work is little out of the ordinary for mega. ok, now they said they could, and it's going to be a tough thing and that's just the way to sort of to the negative. i'll feel i work in my bones this evening can with it, but that's ok. it's what it can live from is cheap alone every 2 months, 2 steps off to aspire sites to make charcoal the

but that's like i put in the pushes if anything you need to chuckle to suffice same otherwise there isn't enough money funding. we need both the sheet and the charcoal, and then we managed to get by in if and this is a, you know, something like, you know, stuff to others. family farm is located high up in the mountains besides cheap, he owns goats, pigs. and if you heck, there's a forest, meaning he has what at his disposal? with the source material at hand tried eric and get started. he gradually piles up several tons of phone dry wood. the center, what's known as the quando shaft is crucial. it square twat air will light the fire later to do this, he needs phone dry would have a find technique and this secret ingredient,

the brother phones on to fall off one by one water. and this helper stacked the logs in a circle around the core. it looks simple, but it demands great concentration. the spacing is crucial to close and not enough oxygen will reach the core too far apart and it will for an even link isn't something with a lower hold on the safe. i did a good job at the end of my life until then all i can do is how water grew up in the mountains. just him and his parents. well, other children, practice writing and math. quad air learn to bring 400 sheep safely to pasture, to make cheese out of milk and charcoal out of what? nobody really i couldn't walk in an office. no, i need the freedom and the fresh air out here and nature. and most everyone can live in the city anyway. now hold on. the stack is

almost finished. a pile of wood, wayne tons with ventilation shafts. to water covers it 1st with straw and then with cold, ash, and soil. this protects the wood from wind and moisture. finally the lights to fire through a narrow cabin, the stacked news about a vehicle i need to how are you the more so the fun catchers on the other side of the family becca. otherwise, it will just in the front of zillow, fish in the mountains, and the flames go out quickly. but the embers continued to glow beneath the dome, where there's just enough oxygen disco lice and controlling the invisible

smouldering fire to prevent the stack from going up in flames. the twat air won't know how good the charcoal will be until he reopens the stag. after 5 days, transel dania has been the backdrop of an eventful history. romania is best known region is a melting pot of different european peoples, the culture of the region's ethnic germans as entrenched here to this day. there are more than $150.00, preserved fortified churches here an impressive legacy of the chancel vein in saxons. they were built around the 15th century to defend against ottoman invasion . and towns like being done or a cd swat of residents could take refuge and the structures houses of worship were

turned into proper strong holes with thick walls observation towers, an entire neighborhood. most of the ethnic germans began leaving romania after 1970 . today. around 16000 transylvanian saxon still lives in the region. in the village of king, quote, 2 of them are going back to their routes. molina and alex, how that want to preserve the culture and language of their ancestors in particular, the artisan traditions of the transfer being in fact, since the together, they're renovating the house. that once belonged to my lee and his grandparents with old materials and tools when possible. they're currently working on a wooden pavilion hill's phone. another challenge is when you work with old materials, it's quite normal that nothing fits and everything is crooked because everything

was crafted by hands, almost always in the water. well, a carpenter, alex takes care of practical aspects. malayna goes on a daily treasure hunt for old items. her latest find, antique doors and matching windows. she's also discovered evidence of their historic value. i'm trying to move for an afternoon web students to show me that we found the exact technical drawing in the carpenter's book from 1870 for lessons in done that provide things like this sa proof that here in this region of transylvania and romania there's an old opposite tradition, that's west reviving the voice the hero. and that's to be, that's a believe. and in their renovation project, the habits utilize their ancestors materials and know how as a way of building sustainably, well saving money. these fines very nearly became firewood.

yeah, this is replacement and this yeah, so it's a great piece of work in terms of craftsmanship and design checklist. it's a real tricia that survive to more than 100 years out in it. but there are still quite a bit of work to do before alex can fit the doors into the wooden frames. so it's going in maybe 2 millimeters of yeah, that's thing put light him off. the problem disrupts too long and the joint has the wrong dimensions. but alex is not giving up, they're not the scenes. they're challenging. one of them. in his workshop, alex finds a suitable tool for every challenge. the 38 year old collects traditional tools from the region and repairs done. a conduct that was investigated,

credited from the old tools, are better to some of the quality of steel is better and they're much more robust than the standard tools. you can buy everywhere these dates and come on and, and if they're old and from the village, it's safe to say they were made. lie a village blacksmith with a particular craftsman and mine ticket must ex dawson up system, so he'd never give him anything shot because the 2 of them would see each other almost every day. the unconventional project has long been the subject of village gusta. we are on the tiller, she was in the largest city are sure people shake their heads when they talk about us. some were the ones who collect all the old junk that would normally be thrown away to make a few quick lane for scrap iron or firewood to no one's collecting this kind of stuff. so of course we're the freaks around here and see the freaks. but that's just fine. good. so alex was born in brush of marlena. in bucharest they were raised bilingually. but living in germany

was never an option for them. their roots to their romanian homeland. drum deep and money and a few of them here especially that's why i no longer start my list when i grandmother died to now, so i came to the empty house a short time later certification live. i who faded into a very difficult time in my life that much, it should be against that solely mentally. well, a time when i was wondering who i was and what i was actually doing the . yeah. so that it gave me so i wasn't so conscious of it at the time, but it turned out to be a wonderful dream. and so my main estate.

but realizing her dream became more complicated than expected. the couple kept coming up against new unforeseen problems. that's not why late or is it the nails from alex to supply don't fit they won't be able to continue working on the wooden frames for the pavilion. well, molina and alex tried to find a solution for the to the noise. people are also working to preserve another or to know transylvania tradition and the little village of suspense. dmitri, pub, mixers wouldn't be processed for the disease. he's been doing it for 45 years. he feels those sierras and his phones. it's important to him that the tradition is passed on. his son in law is to take over the range. a huge honor for the young man

interest from me. she what does that sound like a why that is, that's a big responsibility for me. i mean, if that's the water from the white a dental care that i'm not setting out to be better than my predecessor, but i'd like to at least reach his level the, i'd like to achieve that. it pushes, i'm looking at a lot of like many young romanians you on worked on construction sites or funds across europe as a migrant labor. his home village couldn't secure him a future, neither personally nor financially. i've told him at do me to his daughter and started helping out in the workshop cuz she worked with across as gave me a purpose of mice again. so that's why i decided to stay in pensa. i felt at home here again,

and then it was very difficult for me before you spend demetrius apprentice for 2 years and will ideally take over the job soon. but there's one problem. his skills aren't quite up to the master is accepting standards. the she is, cynthia mazda is about the, i'd like to finish chiseling the up a rece today as to whether that's where you go like to go to tip and i hope it works out. but i'm nearly done here. you, once you've done that much, you can help me with the painting, victoria, that the coaches to come. so i'll do my best on this cross as to be a final memorial to partridge family. friend, the of the

the g low horse market is a combination of trade show and family reunion. it's already packed, just like every year. and traders are still trying to secure an area on the field, which is much too small. the cost down the horse speedo from who's estimates again, but he's determined to find a spot the point you might be less than $50.00. i don't know if any event like this festival is unique. 50, but it's about honor and monitors it is that most of them are a lot of money. who costello's hoping to sell one of his best mares today? the potential buyer is also the organizer of the market.

the mode of making sure everything comes together. the featured in for some of the screw, this jingle on this thing. i can put into words how important this market is to me . it's in my blood. oh, sometimes my father, my grandfather in my entire family always had horses and that's how they are in the living between, you know, i don't study kind of voice as like a child or maybe we can from forces or like members of the family for us. romano, so that really for me to, to listen to them we'll see belongs to the romani ethnic group like almost all those taking part in the market. the 1st through many people arrived in transylvania in the mid 14th century from india and anatolia horse trading as one of this ethnic minorities oldest and most respected professions. with a lot of fanfare, the men try to get potential buyers to notice their voices. negotiations are

conducted in a rather crude manner. enough few for such a 3000 fuel chunk scoundrel, 4000. eventually, at double handshake, seals the deal and the tone becomes friendlier. the horse trading as a male domain in a culture that's generally dominated by man. aside from money, this business is also about socializing. the market is the get together of the year for the romani, they each drink and party into the night. it just depends. it's a different atmosphere. the village in northern pennsylvania is in morning. a member of the close knit community died just a week ago. the widow newtown has commissioned across for has been stand cork. everyone's still in shock. he was only 57 years old. and infections resulted in

oregon failure to come in and look at close with no one saw it coming general. if you'd only complain about the pain earlier if he'd been at the hospital sooner. but it was already too late. his entire body was infected. well, not students of sat in suspense, a people have an unusual attitude to death, say more, but try not to dwell into sorrow. us remember the good things? i think if there's so many photos of it, i check one of our grand daughters just one year old. here i check with slash by the window new to has asked me to pop to make across. as all the visitors do, when enough one dies, locals believe the cross as the entrance to paradise,

the contrast, and what does that have to fix? the fact of the, on the cross will be a sign of respect for my beloved husband. you know, i mean, i'm not worried because i trust to meet your with all my heart and he says he knows the story of every person he makes across for hutchins changes from here. he was a friend of my husband, but i wanna, he knows everything. i thought, see if that's okay, give me 115 days from when i do meet true pop knows dunkirk and his wife. well, he was at their wedding and their children's baptisms. while demetrius son in law works on the carving, dmitri will write a poem about his departed friend, which is a site survey. and so i was trying to westside when a family member process, i didn't, i mean, we'll miss it. i'm the to the up. i don't have that and if i mean on this occasion to dimitry a little remain true test principles say so. so to present whatever our role it's on the cross to that there's always

a surprise for the family into my media. they only see the cross at this stage. and then again, once it's completely finished the crew, i've never shown as a problem before. i know my been otherwise, and i might say, don't like that, so. no, no, no, no, cuz i protest this is pronunciation, the new tough, fully entrust. demitra was composing her husband's final attribute the to mary's symmetry of spencer. it's one of a kind like an open book where visitors can read about the late residents of the village. the orthodox christian community facing tests with openness and humor. and there's a lesson in there for the living or to meet you knows how tough life can be. but he always tries to see the bright side.

apart from when there is nothing cheerful or humorous to say. as in the case of this little girl or h. s. vanessa, i've done in house talk to you that came from cbs. because because the country is not, if we have to stop in front of our house and run me over and make my parents so side, i wouldn't go to the to didn't judge it could get in this tragic accident that happened in front of the parents of interest sent to the events like this a some painful death, touch it go, else cannot describe it. why should each time i read the sense of grief or touch is a ship intravenous. sometimes the beginning when no matter how terrible the fate to meet, you must always find words. but he unfastened the including now for the death of

his friend, stan, good. the embers and the charcoal pile of 12 deer top ash has been burning for 5 days. few layer tons of wood to build the stack, also known as a clump quad or smoking as animals quickly today. because instinct is telling him it's time to open the club by full mouth, but now for me i can never be so you'll get a good result. and sometimes the cold has been done up in the wood, stays as it has taken a lot of good feeling. we've been trying to put some of the money from the sale of the charcoal as an important source of income for to water and his family. the animals alone aren't enough to make ends meet the water can't really tell what the pile looks like inside. he needs to open it. the price, i mean,

i'm starting here. the life cycle mazda needs more time. it's not showed. yeah. they look, it still would need to close the whole again category, so not that they had sampled or just like a back. otherwise, i'll smell of a flame again. no my, my squad air gingerly closes the gap here on the left. the wood isn't yet sufficiently chart. but the embers aren't evenly distributed on the right side, it could be ready to waters hoping for partial success. at least i'm just what's that's got done like a boy. now i need to see if it's worked here or not. how does it looks good? it didn't say mindful the trunk go slowly starting to show. yeah. yeah, there's a ship that's like a moving from there. and so charles and joseph came with the

i think that's very good job. call the study back. i think no matter how i strike it, it doesn't break, it's just fine. good quality. can you forget that no twat or assembly is one of about 20 living in the mountains? isolated from the rest of civilization, they rely on each other to survive. water supplies them with a star quote for 14, a percent around 8 your the and there is always a fuel in the house for cooking supper today as mutton and curdle sheets smell the between the sheets and the charcoal water is confident. how always be able to feed his family

here, tucked away in the mountains of transylvania, the as in ching, cold, it's also time to get cooking like her approach to house renovation. melinda, have that tries to use what's on hand for her meals today. she's prepping a wine, so a typical dish that her ancestors would have eaten to boost their only insistence, especially when they had a cold to care for the grand sylvania and saxons are known to be frugal when it comes to that cuisine. when picked it up. this is canals with the alpha that means using and can see what's available. i'm just used. my name is cooking ahead of time because she has an important appointment today. work on the old pavilion hasn't been progressing. alex couldn't

find the right nails for the job. the blacksmith friend should be able to help. he's going to make them custom nails. the head can be slightly bigger, and that's a 50, empty, or radically the head can be just as big toe mustang strikes the iron heated to around 1350 degrees in the fire into the nails. precise conical shape. there's a small german speaking community in the region. it's a mix of transel vanya saxons, and people who have left germany to come and live here many of them or says crafts people per artist, a sincere it is slow. oh,

wow, super cool. oh, wow. the new nails and the old doors fit perfectly. the the story pavilion project is finally coming along. is amazing. i can, i can picture it properly now. it's going to be great. we've got a reason to celebrate. don't wait and i'm having some fun. oh, wow. you bad? hm, lou. well then let's talk in a couple things. their friends and helpers with wind soup and cake. their dream of a house with a rich back story, and the home of their ancestors is taking shape the and spencer a new data ons. to meet you, pop is finding the right words for the attribute as late friend as apprentice you

on is making the final touches to the cross. the you want is under a great deal of pressure just after all, demitra count. retire until his son in law is able to fashion an entire across on his own. the more to look regarding it shouldn't get. it's not perfect is there are a few small mistakes. if you look closely generic. the most important thing is that this line here is perfectly straight so that it forms a distinct framework because if you need something to be done that well when you for yeah, my might as to maybe new. yeah. the next step is for you want to apply color to the cross. the bright hughes of the grave crosses are just as unusual as the poems and portraits are you on is getting better

all the time. but no one becomes a village chronicler and poet. overnight, she don't know i'm with, i'm still a beginner. there are many tricks and techniques left for me to learn normal things . but i'm in the best position possible because dimitria is a great teacher. but on to columbus pull some professor frontier. well, i'm confident i'll be able to replace. i'm assuming, what's the, what's good? a good equipment demitra has written around 500 times during his career. this one was especially difficult. but now he thinks he's found the right words. i guess i'm the gmc session i you to my here on life to ration to get one. my name is stone gall guarantee or i'll tell you the truth because the lead my life was not easy. it was

defined by look at a more it didn't have such a full di shed. that's why i'm lying and coughing. now, she the only nice thing i love it. if i make snaps from my own apple office, most lovely his widow will be pleased showing that you cannot do we accept these ties. i sometimes wonder what i'll leave behind that i'm put, you know, i don't know how many more years i have left. but luckily, i've got someone to take, of course, if i could, okay. if buffy actually would much cut in between the time comments. so you might hope you want to write the truth, some like cross it to a chip, it'll be up into coach on the truth about a life in just a few words. that's no simple feet for demitra and you on life isn't solely about the highest or the lowest,

which is why there will always be space for both at the mary symmetry. and so pensa of the. 2 2 at zillow market, the horses aren't just for sale. they also compete in a variety of contents. the animals must demonstrate their strengths and some score extra points for beauty. nowadays, the market runs itself. organizer proceeds timely, has time to devote to his own business. so people couldn't do lots of july, you can, but if i like something then i have to have it run out because still has something i really liked about you. oh cool. so the yeah. i wish you a long live close though. how are you? i'm very well this is the mayor. i'd like to sell so. yeah, but she's a beauty. how old is she again so well just to, to use exactly the way i the, the,

she's what your price. i'd like 4500, but i don't know what you can afford. it's daylight robbery. we're not in germany. what's your offer? 3500. you know 33500 for this man. know, or the deliberate or legs like a goddess of the children will the for yourself, look at it, take a close look at the se of the she kind of what's your final price? which photo center offers to low of the customary negotiation is underway. the mentees and provoke one another, seeing how far they can push it. a single handshake signals initial interest. after some haggling, double handshake, seal the deal side. oh yeah, we're good for the level of good level. been very pleased with that.

we agreed on 3750 ers. that's a fair price for both of us up to set you that the mirror is a perfect fit for my breathing program. that will be available. but it will kind of pulls the selling. the mirror was meter sweeties to allow me then when it is a, those are adults use a car, but i know where she's going, but it open the door, them over with him. she won't have to work in the forest. she won't be the cushion they bought to me. it was like a father in his child exact to say, because i wouldn't entrust my daughter to a bad man, but the gentle good bible is there. nobody has his own home audio. that's the way it is with my horse as to the early evening and cos tennis, returning test, farm and horses in choose there is pride and joy and one important part of

transylvania is vibrant culture and many here are doing all they can to preserve that culture the german opportunities. what if are they fight? but i hope i love and so much i don't find out. my grandson's leaving home can be contemptuous, but for different reasons, any child would then go to another country, she hop on. why would that be good? i'm afraid that she would be murdered or to that us in the when generations flash 30 minute w h l. these basically the line. you can they be said the

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