country home Romania • Casa Pelu • photo gallery

• Casa Pelu •
The former living home of an abandoned farm. We tinkered its details ...

... we polished antique surfaces, replaced everything that definitely could not be saved, and set on it a new attic.
Et voilà: 3 double rooms, 1 bathroom, a fully equipped kitchen and a cozy roof terrace for up to 6 people in good mood.

romanian country home in a quaint carpathian village near sibiu, transylvania

Street view

First we enter ...

... the new attic.

We turn around ...

... to the other corner ...

... and take a panoramic view.

Here is the second room in the attic.

It's a bit larger, with access to the roof terrace.

Another look with the fisheye ...

... and once again with a wide viewing angle.

We step out onto the terrace ...

... located above the bathroom.

Finally we leave the attic ...

... towards the walk-in kitchen on the mezzanine floor with two entrances.

It features a cosy tiled stove ...

... and is fully equipped for self catering.

We enter the third bedroom adjoining the kitchen ...

... where we find another seating group ...

... for 6 people.

The entrance to ...

... the bathroom (the former summer kitchen of the farm) with tub and shower.

The porch of the neighbouring cottage Casa Nicu in the courtyard

Another outside view from the alley

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After a view from the village bridge ...

... we approach the village square.

A neighbor lives here, offering eggs, canned vegetables, homemade jams and zacuska ...

... and here two procured a slightly different food for the winter.

The village road leads up ...

... past the Orthodox Church.

The village is now mostly under us ...

... and somewhere there a native sloth snors to the beat of a woodpecker.

• Vale on the horizon •

• At the edge of the village •

• One of dozen of wooden sculptures at the 'sunny glade' above the village •

• Mountain lake at Gura Raului •

• The 'Sfanta Treime' monastery at the river above the neighboring village of Sibiel •

• The hermitage 'Foltea' in the small town of Saliste •

• Saxon fortified church Cristian from the 13th century •

• Old town Sibiu •

Take an illustrated walk to the sights of Sibiu and its surroundings.

• The clay castle near Porumbacu-de-Jos •

• The hiking trail leads us into the legendary Cindrel Mountains •

• A mountain shelter, typical of the Romanian Carpathians •

• View from the mountain meadows into the valley. This area is called 'home of the shepherds' •

• There are many legends surrounding the Cindrel Mountains •

• One of them tells of ...

... the lake of tears • More on this in the Carpathian Photo Gallery •

• Barsana Monastery in Maramures •

• Namaiesti hermitage - rock church from the 13th century •

• Dracula Castle of Count Vlad Tepes near Bran •

• Peles Castle of the kings in Sinaia •

• Corvin Castle at Hunedoara •