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The chapel of Queen Mary's heart near Transylvania's Bran Castle.
Little known, but invaluable in beauty, is the Church of the Heart of Queen Mary of Bran
hides an extremely beautiful story about Queen Mary.
A faithful replica of the Stella Maris church from the town of Walsik, which was granted by Romania after World War II in Bulgaria, was built in Byzantine style at the request of Princess Eleana in memory of her mother, Queen.
History says that one of Queen Mary's greatest pleasures was spending time in Balchik's chapel and her wish was to bury her heart there after she died. Because this was no longer possible, the princess demanded the construction of a chapel very close to Bran Castle. The box containing the queen's heart was temporarily deposited in the wooden church of Bran Castle and after a year was transferred to a crypt dug into the rock of Bran Maggiore, awaiting the completion of the church.
In 1947, however, it was the abolition of the monarchy in Romania by the communist regime, so although the chapel was completed in time, it was no longer sanctified and Queen Maria's heart remained hidden in the rock for 27 years! It was not until 1968 that the director of the Bran Museum, together with others, opened the crypt and the sarcophagus and found the golden box containing the queen's heart. Inside the gold box was another silver box wrapped in English and Romanian flags, as well as platinum and gemstones. Since then, Queen Maria's heart is in the National Museum of Romanian History
Παρεκκλήσι η καρδία της Βασίλισσας Μαρίας κοντά στο κάστρο Μπράν της Τρανσυλβανιας.
Λίγο γνωστό, αλλά με ανεκτίμητη ομορφιά, η Εκκλησία της Καρδιάς της Βασίλισσας Μαρίας του Bran
αποκρύπτει μια εξαιρετικά όμορφη ιστορία για τη Βασίλισσα Μαρία.
Πιστό αντίγραφο της εκκλησίας Stella Maris από την πόλη Βάλτσικ , που παραχωρήθηκε από τη Ρουμανία μετά τον Δεύτερο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο της Βουλγαρίας, χτίστηκε σε βυζαντινό ύφος, κατόπιν αιτήματος της πριγκίπισσας Eλεάνας, στη μνήμη της μητέρας της ,Βασίλισσας Μαίρη.
Η ιστορία λέει ότι μία από τις μεγαλύτερες απολαύσεις της Βασίλισσας Μαρίας ήταν να περάσει ο χρόνος στο παρεκκλήσι του Bάλτσικ και η επιθυμία της ήταν να θάψει την καρδιά της εκεί μετά που πέθανε. Επειδή αυτό δεν ήταν πλέον δυνατό, η πριγκίπισσα απαίτησε την κατασκευή ενός παρεκκλησίου πολύ κοντά στο Κάστρο του Μπράν. Το κουτί που περιείχε την καρδιά της βασίλισσας ήταν προσωρινά κατατεθειμένο στην ξύλινη εκκλησία του Κάστρου Bran και μετά από ένα χρόνο μεταφέρθηκε σε μια κρύπτη που έσκαψε στο βράχο του Bran Maggiore, περιμένοντας την ολοκλήρωση της εκκλησίας.
Το 1947, ωστόσο, αποτελούσε την κατάργηση της μοναρχίας στη Ρουμανία από το κομμουνιστικό καθεστώς, οπότε αν και το παρεκκλήσι ολοκληρώθηκε εγκαίρως, δεν ήταν πλέον αγιασμένο και η καρδιά της Βασίλισσας Μαρίας παρέμεινε κρυμμένη στο βράχο για 27 χρόνια! Μόνο το 1968 ο διευθυντής του Μουσείου Μπραν μαζί με άλλους άνοιξαν την κρύπτη και τη σαρκοφάγο και βρήκαν το χρυσό κουτί που περιείχε την καρδιά της βασίλισσας. Στο εσωτερικό του χρυσού κιβωτίου υπήρχε ένα άλλο κιβώτιο από ασήμι τυλιγμένο σε σημαίες της Αγγλίας και της Ρουμανίας, καθώς πλατίνα και πολύτιμοι λίθοι. Έκτοτε, η καρδιά της Βασίλισσας Μαρίας βρίσκεται στο Μουσείο Εθνικής Ιστορίας της Ρουμανίας.
¡Cómo podría pintar
los colores de una rosa
y siempre de ella extraer
esa magna dulzura
que te ofrece con sus hojas!
Capullo o rosa abierta,
¡qué importa!, si en ambas ves
dulzura, pasión y arte,
y de ahí poder comprender
que la belleza es color
del alma cuando se abre.
The Balchik Botanical Garden is a 65,000-square-meter park located on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Originally developed in 1926 as the personal residence and park for Queen Marie of Romania, it was officially established as a scientific botanical garden in 1955 by Sofia University.
The Balchik Botanical Garden is a 65,000-square-meter park located on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Originally developed in 1926 as the personal residence and park for Queen Marie of Romania, it was officially established as a scientific botanical garden in 1955 by Sofia University.
Queen Maria of Romania built a summer palace in Baltjik in 1924. At this time, the city belonged to Romania, and Maria wanted a villa where she could spend summers with her children.
Photo taken at the Botanical Garden against Queen Maria's Summer Palace, in the city of Balchik on the Black Sea, Bulgaria in June 2017.
The Balchik Palace is a small palace and former royal residence located in Balchik, a popular town and seaside resort in Dobrich Province, in northeastern Bulgaria. Known as the Quiet Nest, the palace was built to serve as the summer residence of Queen Marie of Romania, in a time the region was part of Romania.
In 1921, Queen Marie visited Balchik and instantly developed a strong affinity for the area, saying that she "couldn't imagine such a place only in places like Italy". Construction of the palace was between 1924 and 1937. Its architectural style is mostly combining Bulgarian, Romanian and Ottoman Turkish motifs.
Francis Ford Coppola spent 11 days at the palace in 2007 shooting scenes of Youth Without Youth, a fantasy drama film written, directed, and produced by him, based on the novella of the same name by Romanian author Mircea Eliade. The film is a co-production between the United States, Romania, France, Italy and Germany. (Wikipedia)
The Palace of Balchik - an architectural complex combined beautifully with the botanical garden of the Sofia University... A magic place in Balchik.
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From this summer in Bulgaria... the picture was all green but I don't feel that way anymore, so I added some autumn to it :-)
It was taken in Balchik where there is an old castle and a big botanic garden surrounding it. We walked until we almost got lost, and this little path looked really mysterious... I wondered where it leads to but didn't check.
Sometimes I wonder where some of the paths I could have taken in my life would have lead me to...
North of Varna on Bulgaria's Black Sea Coast.
The area changed hands between Bulgaria and Romania a few times early last century during the Balkan Wars and The Great War.
It was peacefully returned to Bulgaria through the 1940 Treaty of Craiova, which was mediated by Italy and Germany.