AN ARCHITECTURAL VARIETY SPECIFIC TO OLTENIA. THE CULA (OLD BOYARS' HOUSE)
AN ARCHITECTURAL VARIETY SPECIFIC TO OLTENIA. THE CULA (OLD BOYARS' HOUSE)

Summary/Abstract: The cula type edifices, which represent the tower-shaped buildings, appeared out of the necessity of refuge and defending. They are met in our country, in the southern territories, between the Carpathians, the Danube and the rivet Olt, with a prolonging to the river Argeş. From the architectonic point of view, the elements specific for the cula type edifices existed as starting with the 17th century at the boyars' houses. But, in the most well-known and better preserved forms, they appeared in the Phanariot period. They had been built by the small and middle boyars from the countryside. The cula type edifices from Oltenia fulfilled different functions, dividing them in three categories: refuge and defending cula or temporary house; watching, signalizing and alarm cula; permanent dwelling-cula.

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