Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXVIII, Issue 2
Written by Alexandru MEXI, Daniela-Ioana GUJU, Gabor-Giovani LUCA
In between the 18th and early 20th century a large number of castles and manors with parks and gardens were built near and around Bucharest, particularly north of the city and near main roads and rivers. Together, these ensembles define a network and cultural landscape of peri-urban noble estates similar to other around big cities in Romania (eg. Cluj-Napoca, Târgu Mureș, Timișoara etc.) or along several historical and commercial routes such as the Prahova or Mureș river valleys or the road from Bucharest to Iași, and, to a certain extent, to other networks of castles and manors with parks and gardens such as those near Paris and the Loire valley, Florence, Rome etc. Either in communism, yet also after 1989, many of these sites were destroyed, their parks were fragmented into multiple properties, their buildings dismantled or left to decay etc. The following paper thus aims to address both the nowadays cultural landscape defined by the remnants of these ancient estates, as well as to emphasize on the importance of one of the oldest manors and its park at Maia.
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