Visit the potter workshop and release your spirit to create yourself some clay objects.

Most of the fabric process is made by men, due to the high physical strength needed; the clay is kneaded and slowly mixed with water. The kneading is mostly done by hand, feet or a wooden hammer, then the process of removing the impurities, followed by the one when small spheres are created and put onto the pottery wheel. The wheel is moving, the hands move fast because the clay dries up very quickly…

The decoration is largely done by women, using a hollowed-out bull's horn with a goose feather in its tip, which works like a pen, to trace the finest of lines. 

The richness from Horezu region is completed with other assets, the locals excelling also in the weaving of fabrics, embroidery, wood and stone carvings, as well.

Afternoon drive through the region to admire the some special local architecture, aka “cule” – from Turkish “kule’ – tower, squared shape with thick walls buildings, with one to three upper floors, serving as defensive role during the Middle Ages.

Dinner and accommodation.

Morning visit the Horezu Monastery, a superb testimony of the great leader Constatin Brancoveanu’s art, founded in 1693-1697.

The monastery represents the biggest monastic establishment in Romania, UNESCO heritage since 1995. The name of the monastery comes from the birds called "huhurezi", night birds with a particularly colorful plumage. According to the local legend, the craftsmen, who had been commissioned by Saint Constantine Brancoveanu to build a great lavra because of the Turks, had to work more at night, when only the huhurezii could be heard.

Maldarasti Museum Complex, including I.G. Duca Memorial House, Cula Duca and Cula Greceanu - special monuments of Romanian architecture, in which rustic elements from the area are harmoniously interwoven with elements of fortifications, some building being dated back since the 16^th century.

Return to Bucharest.