Vila Golescu

Vasile Golescu, son of the 1848 revolutionary Alecu Golescu-Arăpilă and a graduate of the School of Waters and Forests in Paris, laid out an arboretum around the house. He terraced the wooded hillside and acclimatised a wide variety of exotic plants. Under the plants, the whole surface of the terraces is drained by a layer of stone that lets the water run off easily, so the shaped slope stays stable.

Surprisingly, the villa was never nationalised or vandalised, so its furniture, lamps, paintings and other original objects make it a real museum of the early 20th century.

In 2000, the daughters of the engineer Golescu donated it to the Pro Patrimonio foundation, which between 2003 and 2007 carried out major work: drainage, strengthening, finishes, new building systems and restoration of the furniture.