Malcoci

October 17, 2010 by  
Filed under Places to Visit

Going by car from Tulcea to Murighiol or Dunavatul de Jos, the first village you’ll run into is Malcoci. The village was founded in 1843 by 25 German families, making it the first of a number of villages founded by German colonists in Dobrogea, led by Ignatiu Hoffart. They called the place Malkotsch. They were [...]

Saint Lazarus Leper Wine

November 15, 2009 by  
Filed under Useful

I was looking so some fresh news about Danube Delta earlier and I ran into a really interesting article on austriantimes.at that really caught my attention. My surprise is that it was about Tichilesti, the last lepers colony in Europe, which, although is not in the Danube Delta as the article claims, is close and [...]