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In a function hall, a woman presents a slide titled “The stages of organizing a folkloric expedition”; beside her, on a table covered with a traditional rug, framed pictures and embroideries are on display.
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The traditional houses of Ungheni's villages are vanishing. Documenting them has become “an emergency”

A workshop organized by the Culture and Tourism Department at Petrești, on 23 July, raised a problem larger than a single day of sessions: the peasant houses of clay, wood and reed thatch in the district's villages are being lost, against a backdrop of depopulation of more than 22% in a decade, and the ordinary ones hold no monument status. What most often remains is only what someone manages to document — a method with deep roots right here, at Cornova, where Dimitrie Gusti's team was already “reading” the village back in 1931.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· Explainer
A monumental mosaic of five girls in folk costume — white blouses with red embroidery, skirts with red-and-yellow stripes — holding hands in a round dance, against a green background of mosaic tiles.
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The House of Culture in Măcărești is crumbling — and with it the «Hora cu cinci fete» mosaic the state doesn't list as a monument

In the House of Culture of Măcărești village, built in 1972 and closed since 2005, survives «Hora cu cinci fete» (the round dance of five girls) — a monumental mosaic that also gave its name to a book by writer Ștefan Susai. A recent Moldova 1 reportage and a public appeal to the Minister of Culture put the ruined building back in the spotlight. Less has been said, though, that neither the mosaic nor the building appears in the state register of protected monuments — and that a village which drew over 8 million lei through «European Village» for a kindergarten and water lacks the roughly 30 million the mayor puts on paper for restoration.

Ion Calmis·11 July 2026· Explainer