VOLUMEN - special history book fair near Cluj
The 2017 season starts shortly at Camp Virtus, my NGO's historical park in the making near Cluj-Napoca, in Salicea. The opening event, prepared for April 29th, is entitled VOLUMEN as it mainly consists of a special book fair, focusing on history books, periodicals, and articles (extracts). Old and new history books are available in English, Romanian, even Slovak, dealing with periods between Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Period in Central and Eastern Europe - mostly Romania. There…
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Scoala Altfel at Camp Virtus 2017
Part of the Romanian National alternative school days, Scoala Altfel, Virtus Antiqua NGO organizes historical reenactment activities at its center near Cluj-Napoca, at Camp Virtus. There shall be several interactive workshops: bow and arrow target practice, military equipment presentation (Roman soldiers, gladiators, ancient Dacians), daily life in Antiquity (sensory workshop - guessing by smell plants known and unknown during the ancient times; historical parallel of artifacts/objects from…
Scoala Altfel at Camp Virtus 2017
Part of the Romanian National alternative school days, Scoala Altfel, Virtus Antiqua NGO organizes historical reenactment activities at its center near Cluj-Napoca, at Camp Virtus. There shall be several interactive workshops: bow and arrow target practice, military equipment presentation (Roman soldiers, gladiators, ancient Dacians), daily life in Antiquity (sensory workshop - guessing by smell plants known and unknown during the ancient times; historical parallel of artifacts/objects from…
Scoala Altfel at Camp Virtus 2017
Part of the Romanian National alternative school days, Scoala Altfel, Virtus Antiqua NGO organizes historical reenactment activities at its center near Cluj-Napoca, at Camp Virtus. There shall be several interactive workshops: bow and arrow target practice, military equipment presentation (Roman soldiers, gladiators, ancient Dacians), daily life in Antiquity (sensory workshop - guessing by smell plants known and unknown during the ancient times; historical parallel of artifacts/objects from…
Scoala Altfel at Camp Virtus 2017
Part of the Romanian National alternative school days, Scoala Altfel, Virtus Antiqua NGO organizes historical reenactment activities at its center near Cluj-Napoca, at Camp Virtus. There shall be several interactive workshops: bow and arrow target practice, military equipment presentation (Roman soldiers, gladiators, ancient Dacians), daily life in Antiquity (sensory workshop - guessing by smell plants known and unknown during the ancient times; historical parallel of artifacts/objects from…
Scoala Altfel at Camp Virtus 2017
Part of the Romanian National alternative school days, Scoala Altfel, Virtus Antiqua NGO organizes historical reenactment activities at its center near Cluj-Napoca, at Camp Virtus. There shall be several interactive workshops: bow and arrow target practice, military equipment presentation (Roman soldiers, gladiators, ancient Dacians), daily life in Antiquity (sensory workshop - guessing by smell plants known and unknown during the ancient times; historical parallel of artifacts/objects from…
Scoala Altfel at Camp Virtus 2017
Part of the Romanian National alternative school days, Scoala Altfel, Virtus Antiqua NGO organizes historical reenactment activities at its center near Cluj-Napoca, at Camp Virtus. There shall be several interactive workshops: bow and arrow target practice, military equipment presentation (Roman soldiers, gladiators, ancient Dacians), daily life in Antiquity (sensory workshop - guessing by smell plants known and unknown during the ancient times; historical parallel of artifacts/objects from…
Mud bricks
Camp Virtus has already seen the rise and fall of one clay oven - with the second one in the making. One of the things we have decided to change is the structure of the oven itself, not made of clay according to the wattle-and-daub technique, but out of clay bricks. What we did not know was how difficult it is to make clay bricks. Though the term mud brick suggests that very soft clay is used, such a technique proved impossible to implement as the "bricks" lost all shape when forced out of…