Cula Cioabă-Chitescu from Șiacu, Slivilești commune, historical monument, was vandalized, after last year it was saved from destruction by the volunteers of the Association “Ambulance for Monuments”, who performed a series of very important restoration works.
Liana Carina Tătăranu, president of the “Inima Olteniei” Association, who participated in the restoration works, found that the front door was torn off: “Like us, no one… Some are struggling to repair, renovate, restore , to protect etc, and others just destroy.
Today I was unpleasantly surprised to find that the access door in Cula Cioabă-Chitescu in Șiacu (Gorj) – which the Oltenia-West Monuments Ambulance made safe last year – was torn from its frame.
Message for the curious – heritage lovers or not: “When a door is closed, it means that there are good reasons. In the present case, the tailgate was closed for two reasons:
- protecting the monument until it is fully restored;
- protecting visitors from possible accidents.
Please admire it only from the outside. Don’t go inside anymore because there are no valuables, there are no objects… The woodwork is quite damaged, most of it is missing, so there is a danger of accidents! ”, Liana Carina Tătăranu transmitted on her Facebook page.
Cula has a new roof
Last year, the volunteers from the “Ambulance for Monuments” Association saved the Cioabă-Chintescu cul-de-sac, in Şiacu, by installing a new roof and carrying out restoration works.
The roof was made of wood with traditional tools by specialists and volunteers. Eugen Vaida, the coordinator of the “Monument Ambulance”, said that the roof was rebuilt according to the documents and photos with the original roof: “Cula is important because it is unique in Oltenia. It has structural problems, but we have found minimally invasive solutions to strengthen the walls. “
Cula from Şiacu dates from 1818. The historical monument was taken over by the “Alexandru Ştefulescu” County Museum in 2013, but no funds were found for its restoration.
The “Ambulance for Monuments” Association is among the winners of the “Our Europe 2020” awards for the project to save traditional houses in Transylvania. Prince Charles also donated money to the Monument Ambulance Association.
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