Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Dragomiresti Monastery

We drove on, deeper into the Marmures, in search of the famed wooden churches, of monasteries, and of the peasant way of life that persists here.
So Vicki has formulated this theory, namely, The Monastical
Theory of Encampment, that, in this heavily devout country,
no one will bother us if we are parked outside the monastery;
indeed, people driving by, whole tour buses, actually cross
themselves; anyhow, we tried it, with success, at the
Dragomiresti Monastery; happily, so far as we have seen,
monasteries outnumber gas stations in Romania by about 3 to 1








The front gate, beautifully carved














I walked up the hill to check out the
monastery











Not one of the ancient ones









In the courtyard











But it did have a fairly typical wooden
church, for which the region is famous












And later in the evening, aplenglow on one
of the Vlad the Impaler haystacks;
haystackenglow?

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