10 of the Best Places to Visit in Romania

What’s the true measure of a home? In Romania, the answer has never been marble columns or gilded chandeliers, but walls that breathe, walls that live. The old houses were not born of vanity, but of need and ritual, their interiors coated first with a crude alchemy of clay, straw, and sometimes horsehair — earth bound with the labor of hands. Over it all came lime, a white so stark it seemed to defy time, to cleanse not only the walls but the very air. This was no mere coating. It was a rebirth,