The story of the house begins in 2017, but before that, it is our story, the story of the Grancea family. Once upon a time there was a boy and a girl ... they liked each other and got along well, and like any young newly established family, they thought about what they would like to offer their future children.

   We started our life as a couple in the noisy and crowded capital-city, but we knew that somewhere near Făgăraș, in the middle of the country, there was a house, uninhabited for many years, belonging to Alexandru's grandparents, waiting for us to take it in (no, it is not yet the Comanici Boyar’s House). After a few visits, we fell in love with the village and the area, and decided it would be an amazing place at least for our children's holidays and childhood; we wanted them to experience the same excitement of a holiday in the countryside, in nature, among animals and we renovated the house for our own use.

  Once we had our own place to stay and were able to come to the area more often, we started to get more involved in the cultural and social life of the village. Together with the villagers and the priest, the Ethnographic Museum of the Village was created, photo exhibitions were held in various museums in the country, but also in Venice, Italy, old customs and traditions were revived, brunches and feasts were organized, but more than that, the Monography of the village was published, which had been written 50 years ago, but remained unpublished, a monography from which we could learn about the history of the Village and the noble families that once existed here.

   And now begins the story of the House of the Comanici Boyar. One day I saw a notice board for the sale of what I knew to be the oldest house in the village, still preserving its vernacular architecture. It looked in a deplorable state, the roof partially collapsed, the walls cracked and whoever bought it would have demolished it. We felt we had to buy it, to save it ourselves, as if a voice was “calling” us to this house. After a few adventures in finding out who was selling it and having no idea what we were going to do with it, we managed to become owners of the cottage. We contacted the architect Horațiu Vasilescu to make an evaluation in order to list it as a Historical Monument, and, after two years of work, to our joy, this was achieved. During the process we had to make a historical study, thus discovering a forgotten history of the village and of many families from here, who were part of the small Romanian nobility that defended the Făgăraș Fortress hundreds of years ago. Due to the communist period, when many families with “unhealthy” origins were sent to forced labour, 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. In our historical research we discovered that Veneția de Jos was in the 18th century the village with the most noblemen in Făgăraș County, hence the idea of setting up the Făgăraș Venice Boyars' Museum, a small local history museum dedicated to these Romanian noble families who lived in our village.

  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.

   What is very interesting is how our ancestors "cried out" to be remembered and "saved", and how they "rewarded" those who heeded their call. If we had not bought this house, probably the 2 original ennoblement diplomas found here would have been destroyed, and with them the forgotten history of the village. Of the two diplomas, one belonged to the family that once lived here and had no direct descendants - the Comanici family, and the other belonged to the ancestors of the family that bought the house, that is, our ancestors - the Stoica - Grancea family. The two families are descended from two brothers who lived in the 1600s: Koman and Stoika.