In one of these villages, however, the history of times gone by has gained the strength to emerge again. It is the village of Veneția de Jos or Făgăraș Venice as we call it, a village attested with this name from 1235, therefore than that.

Țara Făgărașului - Fagaras County

   One cannot speak of a history of the village of Venice without speaking of a history of the Făgăraș or Olt river Lands. It is Terra Blahorum de Fugras, documented since 1222.

   According to archaeological and toponymic research it seems that there existed since the 9th century several pre-State formations of communities and unions of communities, which could make up the Olt Land since then, one being in the north-eastern area of Făgăraș Land, between Hoghiz and Părău, including the Venetia area. The idea of the presence of local rulers and strategic fortifications (the Citadel of Comana, near Venetia) is thus emerging.

   The constant pressure of the Hungarian expansion in the areas dominated by the Romanians during the 13th century, the rupture of various Romanian territories of the Făgăraș Land to be given to the Teutonic or Saxon knights, as well as the pressure of the Mongol invasions, finally lead to the movement of the ruler Negru-Vodă from the Făgăraș Land over the mountains and the formation of the newly southern Romanian state, a moment placed around 1290.

   The Făgăraș nobles have their beginnings during the time when the Fagaras County was part of this southern Romanian Country (12th-13th century). The former local rulers become nobles, i.e. feudal lords of land and subjects, with some military powers. Although then incorporated into the Transylvanian voivodeship, the Olt Land kept its Romanian institutions intact, so that for over 150 years (1400-1550) the lords of the mountains gave gifts and raised many people from Fagaras in "boyar institution" under the same conditions as in the rest of the state south of the mountains. However, it is gradually observed (sec. XVI-XVII) the tendency for the nobles to be assimilated in the Transylvanian nobility, in which, through catholization, some will be lost. The role and significance of the nobles began to be increasingly altered, distorted and restricted, with the nobles becoming simple representatives of a military role, with strict obligations in this regard, or even simple free peasants. The Boyar status becomes temporary and revocable, with the clear intention of defeating the desire of the nobles to assert their "nobility" in Transylvania. [1]

   Although isolated and transformed into a free peasantry, the "nobility" of Făgăraș County will be preserved over time as a specific institution of these Romanian lands, maintaining, enduring and evolving, surviving all tests.

   This was also the case for the boyars of Veneția de Jos village, they survived!

   The authorities of the Făgăraș Fortress organized from time to time so-called "conscriptions", to determine how many officers, soldiers, and what weapons and equipment the "boyars" of Făgăraș County had. Such a conscription of 1713, listed 29 boyars in the village of Lower-Venice, surpassed only by Făgăraș, with 31 boyars .[2]We can thus see that Venetia was an important centre in the 17th-18th centuries serving the Făgăraș Fortress.