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The Museum of Bread traditions and customs, Valeni village, Cahul

The Museum of Bread traditions and customs is a museum dedicated to bread, which exhibits many types of ritual bread. Specifically, here are presented 12 types of wedding „colaci” (knot shaped bread) and eight types of colaci (knot shaped bread) related to other rituals, such as Christmas, Shrove Tuesday or Holy Sunday. The „colaci” (knot shaped bread), in turn, have various names: plocon, bridal hoopoe, groom's „colac”, father-in-law's „colac”, mother-in-law's hoopoe, „colac” for the priest at the wedding.

The address:

Valeni village, Cahul district

The excursion program includes:

Visiting the museum's exhibition halls
Duration:

1 hour

Description

The museum also exhibits objects that are used or that were used in the past in the households of the village: „tivda” (Vessel made from dried tigva fruit), distaff, baskets and carpets.

Here you can also participate in workshops for baking bread, cured „placinta” (resembling a thin, small round or square-shaped cake), baked fish or preparing „plachia” (kind of fish meal or a meal of rice or poultry), but also „burnacel” (kind of fancy bread), or „cozonac” (pound cake).

Good to know! At the Museum of Bread you can participate in theatrical presentations of wedding fragments, such as the Hoopoe play, and visitors can get involved in wedding roles.

Tariffs:

Visiting fee, including

150 MDL/person
- guidance
- presentation of ritual bread
- serving with pie with sheep cheese and homemade red wine melissa-cold mint tea or „burnacei” („porumbei”) (kind of fancy bread)

The Museum of Bread traditions and customs, Valeni village, Cahul

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