He was told the ghost town in Romania. It’s been wiped off the map, but the local elders can take you there. Only the church remains, where services are held for the dead

The ghost town in Romania. It is no longer found on the map of the country and only the old people who once stayed here can take you to the area. Here you will find only one church, where services are sometimes held for those who have passed into the afterlife.

The ghost town in Romania, where only one church can be found

In recent years, the phenomenon of depopulation is more and more common in rural areas. Different villages in the country end up being deserted and even erased from the national map. One of the causes of this situation is the fact that people, especially young people, go to work abroad, because of the hard living.

Grăbicina de Sus, from Scorțoasa commune, for example, a village in Buzău county, is facing depopulation. Today, it is also missing from the country’s map, after the inhabitants died, left for foreign countries or moved due to landslides.

In Grăbicina de Sus you can only find the agricultural lands of the people, once intensively worked, the trees and a church where, rarely, services are held for the deceased. Many years ago, there were more than 500 inhabitants and more than 100 houses in the area.

The landslides that began to occur gradually destroyed people’s houses, lands, blocked them from water or food resources, and thus they had to find other homes, in other parts, nearby.

In the 2002 census, Grăbicina de Sus had only three inhabitants, and eight years later they were not found either. “People left the church standing, where services are still held for the dead who are buried there”says Traian Răican, the mayor of Scorțoasa commune, here where the Buzoian hamlet once stood, according to turismistoric.ro

More than 100 localities in Romania are deserted

According to statistics, more than 100 localities in Romania are no longer populated. However, some are still listed as managed and have postcodes. Some villages have also been left deserted due to the disappearance of the jobs of the locals.

“With every village that dies, an entire spirituality that carries behind it at least ten millennia disappears. The strong roots embedded deep in the millennia are gone, the vigorous springs of the Romanian spirit are drying up. strengthens the solid pedestal, the monolithic foundation of modern Romanian culture, popular culture, the identity of the Romanian nation.

The choirs, doines, songs, fairy tales and folk poetry are gone, dances, folk art are gone, clothes, tools, objects, constructions, beliefs and customs, mentalities, a certain way of being and living, are going, much closer of nature, integrated and connected to its rhythms.

It’s true, together with all this, that kind of hard life is also led, with many shortages, no liquid money, with goods obtained all through daily, hard and exhausting physical work and without ever retiring”according to Monića Dușan, publicist and museographer of the Museum of Local History and Ethnography Brad, according to Adevărul.