MUSEUM OF BOYARS FROM FĂGĂRAȘ VENICE
Museum of Boyars from Făgăraș Venice
The idea of this small museum of local history started from the attempt to save, list as a historical monument and restore the oldest house in the village - the Comanici Boyar's House, an effort through which we have rediscovered a forgotten history of the place and its former boyars, the small Romanian nobility from Venetia de Jos (Also-Venicze – Lower Venice), a village that was at the beginning of the 18th century the village with the most numbers of boyars in Făgăraș County.
Due to the communist period, when many families with “unhealthy” origins were sent to forced labor, had all their possessions taken away or were even killed, most people destroyed their ennoblement documents and stopped talking to their children and grandchildren about the past, so that most villagers today know nothing about their past or their ancestors. However, we were lucky enough to find 5 original ennoblement diplomas in the village, for 4 different families, dated between 1630 and 1700, something few history museums in the country can boast of. These families still have descendants to this day in the village.
Diploma of ennoblement Mathei Pencz
The Museum of Boyars from Făgăraș Venice is our soul project, born out of the desire that the village's distinguished ancestors not be forgotten. In the first room there is an exhibition of folk costumes and photographs of the life and customs of the village, and in the second room, starting with June 2023, there is a permanent exhibition of the ennoblement diplomas of the Venetian noblemen, reconstructions of the 14 coats of arms of "Also-Venicze" (Venetia de Jos), as well as a lot of information, translations of the Latin diplomas and documents about over 20 Romanian noble families of the village that still existed in 1860.
