There are 14 ethnic minorities living together in Dobruja, a region located between the Danube and the Black Sea. Dobruja is also home to the largest Turkish-Tartar minority in Romania, due to the fact that this province had been under Ottoman rule for more than four centuries. The area is also home to communities of Lipovan Russians and Ukrainians, who live in a number of localities here.
Our story begins on the bank of Golovita Lake, near the Romanian Black Sea coast, in a village called Vișina, which stands out due to the cultural events held here. It all started after Bianca Folescu, who used to live in a city, decided to buy a holiday home in the village of Visina. Quite unexpectedly, this new home opened her taste for local traditions. Bianca Folescu and she tells us more about it: ”This was not a sudden decision. Everything happened in time. The first step was to buy the house in the village of Visina for me and my children, a quiet place to r
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