once you get here, you can see it anywhere else in the world. in germany, if you go to a prostitute twice or 3 times as much and the other half the service. in 2023, a documentary uncovered corruption on child abuse. the youngest one, for example, let me show you this is now the film team investigates the the was executive have changed the red light, doc shadow, 6 tourism the the, there are some places just about everyone is heard of but few truly no one

such place as transylvania male dominated culture that nevertheless has its softer sides. ross of horses like a child's horses are like members of the family for us. romano. transylvania is a region with a long history and pfeiffer 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 buy it. you know, a cemetery is the only one in the world, but people law smart problem of across the away from the cities. some places appear almost frozen in time. right. in the heart of europe the, the,

the low hanging clouds of most 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 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 skillful crafts people and the elaborate wooden church is recognized by unesco. this world 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, i'm simply 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 one, a split the pin. the whole village knows the story. this deceased women, good because everyone knew how badly she treated the family, especially son in law, and she really post 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, a little cool 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. if she'd live just one day meal, you might be down that we could help you with mothers. cross shirts then tried to wake up. otherwise she'll come back home to a new in tease me would mean was it the, the reactions for 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, 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 and a car accident and i wrote the following is national are rest here to young? age is my name is green. cool. guy had given me a property for myself, an expensive car. my 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 went to the phone, you know, i'd at least have a bride media, but now i'm not even migrating 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 day as the, the due to the idea is 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, and 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. the geographically transylvania forms the center and the northwest of romania. the region 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, close it's romania, 2nd largest city and the cultural economic and scientific center of transylvania. the formerly known as cows and 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 tri, sylvania, an exception innovation that's for the most part, rural 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 of constantine ramos, is the proud owner of $31.00 horses. really, really, really, really. his farm isn't far from clues. 5 below. ha, ha, ha. come to papa. how do you say come to papa? who's the best day? who's to michael? i'm inside ha constantine or costello, as everyone calls him, has a close, almost familiar like bond with his horses 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 delicate, bought 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. he lost the hey look here. so we the guy, come to papa, let give me your leg, the good boy a good boy, but i or but of those he's still young because that goes, if you don't train him now he'll kick you in the face later. you have to learn now think just like a child the deal,

but as much as he correspond to 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 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 freed 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 to reach you 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. it's 6 in the morning. the start of the working day for shepherd to our desktop bush. even though today's work is little out of the ordinary. 40 megabyte. ok, now it's going to be a tough thing and that's just the way to sort out to them. they will feel welcome my phones this evening, but that's okay. flooding kemp live from his cheap alone with every 2 months. he steps off to spire sites to make charcoal the

but that's like i put in the pushes that they may need to chunk out to suffice same otherwise there isn't enough money funding. we need both the sheet. i'm the child coughing and then we managed to get by and if they did not feel but anyway, you know, some 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, 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 fine technique and this secret ingredient, just the phones alt, your thoughts 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 the hold on the safe. i did a good job at the end of my life until then all i can do is how twaddle grow 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 of the fresh air out here in nature. and most everyone can live in the city anyway. know in colorado 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 gap in the stacked news about a vehicle. martha anita, how are you? that's more so the fun catchers on the other side of the family back a otherwise it will just the front of zillow fishing them out of that the. and the flames go out quickly. but the embers continued to glow beneath the dome, where there's just enough oxygen disco lice and controls in v in physical

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 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,

an entire neighborhood. most of the ethnic germans began leaving romania after 1970 . today. around 16000 transylvanian saxons, still live 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 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 of the water. well 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 one afternoon up ceiling to show 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. in romania there's an old opposite tradition. out to hunt, that's west, reviving the voice the hero. and that's to be that's the 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 yes, 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 they're still quite a bit of work to do before alex can fit the doors into the wooden frames. so it's going in my mainly made 2 millimeters that 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 them. 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 ext open up system. so he'd never give them anything shoddy because the 2 of them would see each other almost every day. the unconventional project has long been the subject of village gusta, 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 toys, 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 many nephews them here, especially that's why i no longer start my list and when i grandmother died to nasa, i came to the empty house a short time later certification live. i who fade 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 oh, 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 malayna state.

but realizing her dream became more complicated than expected. the couple kept coming up against new unforeseen problems. that's not why little 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 it has no chance of being in tradition in the little village of suspense to meet you pop makes it 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.

interest from me. she was that sound like a why that is. it's a big responsibility for me. i mean, if that's the water from the la quinta, a dental care that i'm not setting out to be better than my predecessor or something. but i'd like to at least reach his level either. i'd like to achieve that. it pushes, i'm a couple, i just have a rough, like many general maintenance 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. great, because 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 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 sheer cynthia mazda is about the selected to finish, chiseling the upper reef, to dice the way the less 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 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 to horse speedo from cruise estimates again, but he's determined to find a spot. the point is a 50. 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 to the mode of on making sure everything comes together

the future and for some of the screw, the dreamforce on this thing, i can put into words how important this market is. to me. it's in my blood told me my father, my grandfather is my entire family always had horses and that's how they are in the living between, you know, i don't study kind of horses like a child who remembered if i'm courses are like members of the family for us romano, so that really for me to as there's been too long to 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 approved manner. enough you for such

a 3000 fuel chunk scoundrel, 4000. eventually a double handshake, seals the deal, and the tone becomes friendly or 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 infection resulted in oregon failure.

committee jim like i was like, no one, sorry. come a 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. one of our grand daughter's just one year old here i check with slash the widow 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, what does that have to this fix?

the fact that the on the cross will be a sign of respect for my beloved husband. he knew i'm not worried for years. i trust dimitria with all my heart. 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 as bookkeeper. so could you give me want 15 days from when i asked him to 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, just as types of things. i was trying to waste side 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 sort of present whatever on role it's on the cross as it 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 the problem before. i know my been otherwise, and i might say don't, right? that's what made. no, no, no, no, cuz i protested. this is pronunciation, the new tough fully and trust 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 desk, 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. right, just 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 dare to get into and you 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 project go, else cannot describe it. why should each time i read a sense of grief or tut, chavez, a ship into municipal types of how but 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 twice quickly today because it's telling him it's open the club the kind of good results that something that's been done to the question is, is it has taken a lot, a sign of something. let me set a dozen times the days as it has taken a lot of good feeling. i'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 showing you how to do it still would need to close the whole again. calculator, so not that sample or just like it 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 it 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. it's a child, it's andrew at this game with the

i think that's a very good chunk of the study back. i think no matter how i struck it, it doesn't break, but it's a good quality to pay for that. 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. how always be able to feed his family

here, tucked away in the mountains of transylvania. the, as mentioned, 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 immune systems, especially when they had a cold to care for the difference of opinion. and saxons are known to be frugal when it comes to that cuisine. one, pick it up, this is canals or 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. thomas thing 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 work has crafts, people for artist a severe. it is slow. oh, wow,

super cool. oh wow. the new nails and the old doors fit perfectly. the the storage 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 bet. 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 date ons. to meet you,

pop is finding the right words for the attribute is late friend as apprentice you on it's making the final touches to the cross. the do 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 cross on his own. the more to look regarding it shouldn't get. it's not perfect. is there a few small mistakes? if you look closely near the most important thing is that this line here is perfectly straight. so that forms a distinct framework because if you need something to be done that well when you for yeah, my, my son maybe now. yeah. the next step is for you want to apply color to the cross the price use of degree of cross is 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 couldn't, nor 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 demetrius is a great teacher, but on to columbus pull some progress so far. good. well, i'm confident i'll be able to replace it, i'm assuming or so then what's good? the good equipment demitra has written around $500.00 times during his career. this fun was especially difficult for now. he thinks he's found the right words. i guess i'm not the gmc session i used to mount here on lives, arrested in one way. my name is stone goal 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 couldn't pay a fee at your little musket 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 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 punch in while you can, but if i like something, then i have to have it run out because still has something i really liked about you . cool. cool. so the, i wish you a long live costeo. how are you? i'm very well this is the mayor. i'd like to sell also. yeah. she's a beauty. how old is she again so well just to,

to use exactly the i the she's you at 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? not 33500 for this man. no. or did you look at her legs like a goddess up, up, up to tell you bully for yourself? look at it. take a close look at the se. the, the chicago, what's your final price? which photo center offers to low on 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, field video. no. yeah,

we're good for the level of good level. been very pleased with that. we agreed on $3750.00 euro, so that's a fair price for both of us up to set you that the mirror is a perfect fit for my breeding program. but i don't see the bundle, but it will kind of push the selling. the mayor was meter sweeties to allow me they wanted me to is that those are adults easy car, but i know where she's going, but it opened the door, them over with him that she won't have to work in the force. she won't be there because she may bucks and it was like a father in his child's exact effect because i wouldn't entrust my daughter to a bad man that the gentle good bible is there no bought this useful home audio. that's the way it is with my horse as to the early evening and cos dennis returning test farm and horses and cures. 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 tend for us die back. be good news. the question is what's happening later, but what's happening is that the oldest bruce trees are gone and the forest that a long series of comic okay, it looks truly shocking, but this isn't too typical. the planet is dying story. this could actually be good news made in germany in 1st few minutes on the w. h of these basically the lines can they be saved?

the visa was lemons along the amount because the fruits, bread here considered the best in the country. yet the same as loving grows on the threads. a vicious fungus is causing the problem to dine focused on here. in 90 minutes, on d w, the someone else to the cd highlighted to selected for you, you every week. a new a box subscribe. now this is shadows object. these costs and video shed lights on the dog is devastating. colonial har is infected by germany across up, and he employed a scorched coast farms and destroy lives. what is the legacy of this wide spread

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