Cartianu House Museum
"With a picturesque part of wooden stairs and verandas that surround, Cula Cartianu
is located near Valley Stream Cartior, not far from Jiu Valley.
Built by Ceausu Cartianu in the eighteenth century as a fortified house suffered over
time, several interventions, receiving the shape of a house later stage are presented
today.

The building has a ground floor and two floors of three rooms. Slightly buried ground
floor is composed of two vaulted cellars, with separate entrances. They are linked on
the east side by an open room, with the decorative elements of the two
massive arches of stone and brick masonry.

Thick walls are built of river boulders and stones to a height of 1.2 m above this level
is made of brick masonry. What gives a unique touch to the building are attached
porches on all sides of them and two wooden external stairs. The first floor presents
around a nucleus of three rooms, a large porch, stopped on the east side. On the
second floor, divided in the same way as the first, the porch is limited only by wooden
poles.
Cula Cartianu suffered many changes over time, and restoration was completed in
2004, which sought to restore the building as an original look. From that year, Cula
Cartianu hosts an exceptional ethnographic museum."
                                                                                            (Newspaper Vertical)
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"Gorj county is rich in history, historical relics testimony are available. Cula Cartianu, which belonged to the sixteenth-century family of
boyars Cartianu has an amazing architecture and ethnographic collection to offer. Home Cartianu has an estimated ten billion, being
representative of the eighteenth century Romanian architecture. The area is a tourist, but a model of this house are exhibited in the
lobby of the Institute of Architecture "Ion Mincu" in Bucharest.
Calotoiu said that in autumn, with the inauguration of the House Cartianu, Will hold an exhibition of costumes and documents that
belonged to the family of boyars Cartianu. The house was renovated and equipped to become a museum with ethnographic air. The
building was outfitted with period furniture, including carpets of Cartianu family from old times,
most objects belonging to this family set."
                                                                                                                                  (Newspaper Impact 2004)