don't forget this money is in our website, dw, that com as well as on our social media channels and told me that i had to call for myself and the team. the name is the whole bag said wow, thank you so much for joining in. welcome to don't hold bad. a lot of people do that. it's all about saying it's loud. next. would it be nosy bay? like good. everyone to king a healthy award winning called called the called back. the there are some places just about everyone is heard of. but few truly no one

such place is 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 pfeifer and 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, it's, you know, 7th street is the only one in the world, but people lost my problem of them across the away from the cities, some places appear almost frozen in time. right in the heart of europe, the or

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 dramatic history. on gary and 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 squirreled 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 on to one day following his footsteps to do the job. one needs to know

a lot about the people that's offensive. well, this is the new gonna split the dean. this is, the whole village knows the story of this deceased woman. good, because everyone knew how badly she treated the family, especially son in law and clinton, she repulsed him around and find me to have to talk to the people, talk to him for him to sort this out such as you can, the, did you mean that they're shipping us yadda. yeah. cool. good off the back of those . yeah. the family asked me to make a cross that was a true memorial liar for chad. no clue except case 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 to live just one day meal you, i'd be down 3 credit to you with my others cross. that's the try to wake up that. otherwise she'll come back home to renew it and tease me. mean it was it the but

a reaction is positive because it's probably the ones that i've written anything wrong. it's of no, no problems. how she walked out is if you can say like god, that persona it's demitra alone. who decides which life event commemorates the deceased and above all, what information is included in the short poem? yes, i've heard about 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. i get one on the property. put myself an expensive car much mercedes didn't last long. we, i 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 deprived me i could. now, i'm not even mike right preferred to nicole as the 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. check underneath the day of the, the, due to the risk, 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, new separately inject of taking the sorrow out of dest emission. that became his life's work. over the years, the 67 year old has made a name for himself across romania check. geographically, transylvania farms the center and the north west of romania. the region surrounded by the elongated mountain ranges of the car patients to snap book

a scene 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 transform pena. the formerly known as cows in the book, 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 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 system of constantine ramos is the proud owner of $31.00 horses. his farm isn't far from clues. high below. ha ha ha, ha ha. come to papa. do you take him to papa? who is the best? the hey, whose time i come inside huh. constantine or cost stone as everyone calls and has a close, almost familial like bonds with his horses killing

my for almost anybody. 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. the. i couldn't afford anything more luck about the food that i now adays . not only does costello have enough money to pursue his passion, he's also turned into a source of income, east and breeding, and selling horses for 30 years. that's what she loves to, hey, look here. so we the guy, come to papa. let give me your leg. the good boy, a good boy, but i but of those the still young because that if you don't train him now he'll kick you in the face later. you has to learn now the big just like a child. look up to you. but as much as he correspond to the animals,

at some point, it's time to let them go. one of the reasons most important markets is taking place tomorrow. stella, the mirror is due to change, hands for the negotiations are already in full swing until the 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 and the flash coastal breeds from my desk, 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. the

transylvania means beyond the far like i stick old carpet farse cover large areas of the region right up to the peaks of the corporate, the mountains. the few people who settled here live with and from nature. it sounds romantic, but it's not so easy. it's 6 in the morning. the start of the working day for shepherd twi, desktop bush, even though today's work is a little out of the ordinary way. megan ok now they say it's going to be a tough thing and that's just the way to sort. i shouldn't make it. i'll feel i work in my bones this evening. but that's ok. squatters can't live from his cheap alone with every 2 months. he stepped soft, us fire sides to make charcoal the

but that's like i put in the pushes. so if anybody needs to chuckle to suffice same, otherwise, there isn't enough money funding. we need both the sheet. i'm the child co and then we manage to get by and if they do not have the funds to others, family farm is located high up in the mountains besides cheap, she owns goats, pigs. and if you heck, there's a forest, meaning he has wood at his disposal with the source material at hand. try derrick 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 fine take me and this secret ingredient to the doctor

foster, one by one wider and his 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 burn on even link. isn't something with a lower hold on. let me see if i did a good job at the end. i come on up until then. all i can do is how walter grow up in the mountains. just him and his parents. well, other children, practice writing and mass, todd air learn to bring 400 sheep safely to pasture, to make cheese out of milk and charcoal out of what no matter with i couldn't walk in an office. no, i need the freedom and the fresh air out here in nature, and most everyone can live in the city anyway. now hold on. the stack is almost finished. a pile of wood waiting 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. so finally the lights, the fire through a narrow cabin the stack news about the vehicle martha. i need to. how are you? the more in the lake, and so the fun catch is on the other side of the family back a. oh is it just 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, banyon saxons. they were built around the 15th century to defend against ottoman invasion. and towns like beauty done or a cd swatter. precedents could take refuge and the structures. houses of worship

were turned into proper strong holes with thick walls, observation, towers, and entire neighborhoods. most of the ethnic germans began leaving romania after 1970. today. around 16000 transylvanian saxon still lived in the region are in the village of king, quote, 2 of them are going back to their routes. marlena and alex have that want to preserve the culture and language of their ancestors. in particular, the artisan traditions of the transel vein and saxons together, they're renovating the house. that once belonged to molly and his grandparents with old materials and tools when possible. they're currently working on a wooden pavilion details for them. the 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. marlena goes on a daily treasure hunt for old items. clearly defined, 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 1874 funds in done that provide things like this of proof that here in this region of transylvania and romania there's an old office in tradition, to hunt that swath, reviving the voice a hero. and that's to be that 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's still quite a bit of work to do before alex can fit the doors into the wooden frames. it's going in may 2 millimeters. so yeah, that's thing put lot of all the problems. the strips too long and the joint has the wrong dimensions. but alex is not giving up, they're not just seems they're challenging. one of them in his workshop, alex finds a suitable tool for every challenge to 38 year old collects traditional tools from the region and repairs done. i think that 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 by a village blacksmith with a particular craftsman in mind to the most ex, doesn't up system. so he'd never give them anything shouting because the 2 of them would see each other almost every day. the unconventional project has long been the subject of village gossip. 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 a 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 but i show marlena in bucharest they were raised bilingually. but

living in germany was never an option for them. their roots to their romanian homeland. randy and many nephews them here, especially that's my new mortgage document is the grandmother died now, so i came to the empty house a short time later certification letter, who fade into a very difficult time in my life, the associate against it. that's only mainly the time when i was wondering who i was, what i was actually doing the oh yeah. tell me that it gave me some new i wasn't so conscious of it at the time, but it turned out to be a wonderful dream. and so malayna state

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 in the little village of suspense. dmitri, pub, mixers wouldn't be processed for the deceased. 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 reins. a huge honor for the young man

. and from me she was a sound like a y. that is, it's a big responsibility for me. i me, that's the wonderful. uh huh. 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 either. i'd like to achieve that. it pushes, i'm a cadillac, like many young romanians you on worked on construction sites or funds across europe as a migrant labour 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 has 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 he's been demetrius apprentice for 2

years and will ideally take over the job soon. but there is one problem. his skills aren't quite up to the master is accepting standards. the she has taken care of mazda is about the, i'd like to finish chiseling the up a rece today as to whether lettering go like to go to tape, 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 two's estimates again, but he's determined to find a spot the point. i don't know if any event like this festival is unique. 50, but it's about honor and monitor that. most of them are a lot of money. who costello's hoping to sell one of his best mirrors today? the potential buyer is also the organizer of the market to the mode of on making sure everything comes together

the future and for some of the screw jingles on this thing, i can put into words how important this market is. to me, it's in my blood. oh, my father, my grandfather in my entire family always had horses and that's how they earned the living within. you know, i don't of course it's like a child who remembered if i'm courses are like members of the family for us romano . so that was easy for me to to this interval will see belongs to the romani ethnic with 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 money. they each drink and party into the night. it just depends. it's a different atmosphere. the village in northern transylvania is in morning. a member of the close knit community died just a week ago. the widow newtown, has commissioned across for husband stan cork. everyone's still in shock. he was only 57 years old, and infection resulted in oregon,

failure the community and looked at close with no one saw it coming general. if you'd only complains 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 added you to death say more, trying not to 12 interests are of 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, slashed by the window new to has asked me to post to make across. as all the villagers 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 that 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 which is changed from here. he was a friend of my husband, but i wanna, he knows everything i thought see if that's okay, give me what 15 days from when i do me true pop knows don clark 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, 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 little remain true, test principles say so. so to present whatever our role it's on the cross as it to that there's always a surprise for the family to find 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 but otherwise i might say don't, right, that's on it. 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 ups up. and so it's one of a kind. 7 like an open book where visitors can read about the late residents of the village, the orthodox christian community facing desk, with openness and humor. and there's a lesson in there for the living or to meet you knows how tough flights 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 how talk to you that came from cbs. because the biggest, the country is that if we have to stop in front of our house and run me off 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 and 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 for tut, chavez, a ship intravenous integrity who fell off with no matter how terrible the fate to meet, you must always find words for the and stuff and move on. including now for the death of his friend stand 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 his instinct is telling him it's time to open the club for the 4 months and that will be so you'll get a good results that sometimes the court hasn't done much 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 wider and his family. the animal is alone, aren't enough to make ends meet. the water can't really tell what the pile looks like inside you needs to open it. the price, i mean, i'm starting here,

the life cycle mazda needs more time. it's not showing you how to do it still would need to close the whole again. calculator so not that they had sampled or just like a back. otherwise you all smell of a flame again. no ma'am. who am i? the shapell clipping and squad air gingerly closes. the gap here on the left, the wood isn't yet sufficiently charged, 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 not doing like a boy. now i need to see if it's worked here or not. how does that looks good? it didn't say a lot of the travel costs slowly starting to show. yeah, there's a ship to have like a moving from there. so charles, this is just this game with the

i think that's very good. i will call the study back. i think no matter how i strike it, it doesn't break. it's a good quality is pretty positive. that water is family 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 his charcoal for 40 late per cent. around 8 your the and there is always fuel in the house for cooking supper today as mutton. incredible sheets, smell the between the sheets and the charcoal. water is confident. hell. always be able to feed his family

here. tucked away in the mountains of transylvania. the as in ching cool, it's also time to get cooking like her approach to house renovation. melinda, have tried 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 assistance, especially when they had a cold shed to care for the difference of opinion. the saxons are known to be frugal when it comes to that cuisine. one picked it up. this is canals of 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 $51.00. in theory, 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 is a small german speaking community in the region. it's a mix of transylvania, saxons, and people who have left germany to come and live here. many of them more says crafts people are artist 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's properly now. it's going to be great. we've got a reason to celebrate. don't wait and i'm going and going so far. i know you bad. hm, lou. well then let's talk in a couple of things that are 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 date ons. to meet you, pop is finding the right words for the attribute to his late friend. as apprentice

you on it's making the final touches to the cross. the new one 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 this and again it's not perfect is there are a few small mistakes. if you look closely, jeanette, the most important thing is the, this line here is perfectly straight. so that forms a distinct framework because if you need something to be done that well, wonderful. yeah. and my might instead of making it yeah, the next step is for you on to apply color to the cross the price use of degree of crosses. i 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 demitria is a great teacher, but on to columbus to pull some professional frontier one, i'm confident i'll be able to replace. i'm assuming also then 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 not the gmc session. i you to my here on life to ration my name is stone. go go to. 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 share. 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 pick it up, he actually would mascot in between the time, come and see him. i do hope you want me 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

c. 2 c 2 g little market, the horses aren't just for sale. they also compete in a variety of contests. 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 put it by 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 also. yeah. but she's a beauty. how old is she again so well just to, to use exactly the way i the she's what your price. i'd like 4500,

but i don't know what you can afford. that's daylight robbery. we're not in germany . what's your offer for the 3500 to the 33500 for this mer? no. or did you look at her legs like a goddess of the charter? bully for yourself, looking to 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 hand check signals initial interest. after some haggling, double handshake, seals the deal. so i don't know. yeah, we're good for the level,

good level. been very pleased with that. we agreed on 3750 euro. so that's a fair price for both of us up to set you that the mirror is a perfect fit for my breathing program. when i get the bottle. but it opened up was the selling. the mirror was meter sweet to allow me in the morning. it is a, those are adults easy car. but i know where she's going, but it open the door, them away with him. she won't have to work in the forest. she won't be the cushion they bought to me. it's like a father in his child. exact. that's a because i wouldn't entrust my daughter to a bad man that the gentleman could buy bose and 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 and tours. there is pride and joy and one important part of

transylvania is fiber and culture and many here are doing all they can to preserve that culture. the maritime trade and tourism can be powerful sources of beauty, nomic growth. but the come with greater risk than before. container shipping is vulnerable to both accidents and political conflict. crew ships caused considerable environmental damage. can we still afford these enormous vessels made in germany? in such a minutes? on the w, the

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really how to go. the thoughts january 27th. the . this is data of the news and these are our top stories. so the funerals have been taking place across the israel, following the death of 24 is really sold as in gaza. on monday, the military says most died when 2 buildings they were mining exploded. after how much the militants fired at a nearby tank. 3 of those died and fighting of the south of the territory. it marked the deadliest april, israel's forces inside gaza since the last terrorist attack on october 7th. chucky is ptolemy and has overwhelmingly ratified sweden's face to join nato.