The Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotoks at Poșaga is south of Cluj-Napoca, just across the border with Alba County. 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 [...]
One year after he was finally voted out of office, the presence of Cluj’s ‘mad mayor’ Gheorghe Funar continues to haunt the city. His twelve-year term as mayor was marked by the installation of anti-Hungarian sentiment in the city’s parks and open spaces.