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Poșaga Monastery
The Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotoks at Poșaga is south of Cluj-Napoca, just over the county line of județ Alba. It was built in 1935 by Fr Alexandru Rujdea near a spring whose healing properties had been previously discovered.
The monastery itself is exceedingly small, and its church holds only a few people.
Everything about the church is handsomely carved from wood.
The murals are now fading and less impressive than some other churches I’ve visited in Romania, however.
Iara jud. Cluj
Turning now from the sacred to the mundane, I present a photo which I took at a local private distillery in the village Făgetul Ierii, comuna Iara.
I imagine that if I do spend much time in villages, as I foresee, I would have to finally learn about this peculiar process. It would at least ease my fears that the țuica proffered everywhere here can make one blind.