Method & sources
The visitor layer: see, half, don't
Every date sourced: fixed, movable, layered labeled apart; unsourced means thin, never a date. No bonfires — no museum caught, not an omission.
Method & sources
D1 · Dictionaries
dexonline.ro (fetched 2026-09-18): Mărțișor (DEX: red-white string, to women, 1 March); Dragobete (MDA2 2010: 24 February feast + Finding of the Head; Șăineanu 1929: 1 March love water; Scriban 1939/DER: 3 March birds' betrothal); Sânziene (multiple: 24 June folk name of St John's Nativity, church flowers, the Drăgaică bride); Ignat (DEX/MDA2/CADE: 20 December pig killing); colind (Christmas–New Year bands); paște/pască. Every node with at least one dictionary on its date, old and modern cited apart.
D2 · UNESCO
ich.unesco.org list 01287 (fetched 2026-09-18): 2017, 12.COM, Representative List, four states (Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, North Macedonia). The sense: make, offer, wear the red-white thread, untie at blossom/swallow/stork; symbolic protection, winter–spring passage, all ages.
D3 · Peasant Museum
mntr.ro (fetched 2026-09-18): the Mărțișor fair (2026: 25 February–1 March; a quarter century, urban change owned); the Sânziene fair (Nicolau, Ghidul sărbătorilor, Humanitas 1998: foretelling crowns and belts, remedies, the bathing ban, the Drăgaică bride); the Dragobete fair (2022) with concert (the love holiday of Romanians); Diverse (Obiceiuri) (some 8,000 pieces: painted eggs, masks, carol stars, buhai; the Zahacinschi gift of some 3,000 eggs); the Florii fair with its proverb; Breazul's Colindatul românesc (December 2025).
D4 · Village Museum
muzeul-satului.ro (fetched 2026-09-18): 24 June yearly (2024/2025/2026 runs checkable), the agricultural summer's start, Cap de vară. The source of the witnessable flag.
D5 · Church calendar
calendar.patriarhia.ro (fetched 2026-09-18, 2026 edition): the year's authority for Easter's date. The algorithm without a church page, unpublished — the node stays thin; readers check the year's edition.
D6 · What we did not write (recorded)
Bonfires (no museum, fenced); the paschal algorithm and midnight service times; the carol corpus; mythology retellings; pagan-survival verdicts; village rankings; most-authentic verdicts.
License
The wheel, router logic, and flags are original; dictionaries and museums link their sources. Dates are vintages (calendar editions); re-check before departure.
Direct source links
- Terms: dexonline.ro
- UNESCO: ICH 01287 March practices
- Fair: MNTR Martisor fair
- Fair: MNTR Sanziene fair
- Collection: MNTR Diverse (Obiceiuri)
- Fair: Village Museum Sanziene event
- Calendar: BOR Orthodox calendar