Preservation of rural traditions
In the villages of Hunedoara County, many folklore traditions are still preserved unaltered. Bands of ”călușari” carol the villages around Christmas, each with a distinct dancing style and a repertoire of countless archaic carols tailored to each household they visit. On Christmas Eve, the children “go to Pizărai”: they gather at dawn at one end of the village and carol around the houses to wish people well-being and fill their bags with apples and cookies. At Sânziene (a pagan tradition that coincides with the Orthodox holiday of the birth of St. John the Baptist but also with the middle of summer when nature and fecundity is celebrated, the girls from the village braid their wreaths and gather to play on a meadow near the village. Old fiddlers know songs and ballads from very old times.
Dacica Foundation supports and promotes local folklore festivals, documents and popularizes all these traditions through social media pages and directly to the public, through events hosted by the Dacica Guesthouse.
