Writing Retreats
A Manor House in Romania
Spring and Autumn, 2022
Experience the douceur de vivre in an 18th-century manor house, set in the rolling countryside of northern Romania, and carefully restored by its present owner, whose family acquired the estate through marriage in 1836. Our pace is deliberately leisured, to suit our unhurried setting, and we will have the place to ourselves. There is time to read, write, paint or walk in Valeni manor’s parkland with its rare trees and long views towards the Carpathian mountains. The wider estate is rich in wildlife, with deer, wild boar, hoopoes, bee-eaters and Ural and Eagle Owls. Colonies of Swallowtail butterflies are to be found. Here too is thrilling evidence of great antiquity – on the estate are the remains of a Dacian citadel, and a significant Dacian cemetery, and astonishing ceramics of the Cucuteni culture were discovered here.
