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Traditional Cuisine
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Situated at 1000 m altitude, the six villages of the Bucium commune are laying on the Nord-West slope of the Meridional Carpathians, in the South of Apuseni Mountains (in the Metaliferi Mountains ). The distance between Bucium and the important towns in the area: 70 km to Alba Iulia, 40 km to Brad, 3 km to Abrud and 8 km to Campeni.
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There still are, in Bucium, the memorial houses of the folklorist Ion Pop Reteganu and of the writers Emanuel de Martonne and Ion Agârbiceanu . Other characters with great influence upon the lives of the people in Bucium were Horea, Closca and Crisan, Avram Iancu and Ecaterina Varga . There also was here a branch of the "Astra" society, as well as a bank.
The folk costumes are worn today only on special occasions. In the local's houses, remarcable gold jewerly, designed after the Tirol pattern, costumes sown in golden and silver thread, carpets, wiping cloths and various linen can be admired.
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Project funded by the Environmental Partnership Foundation |
