| In this film, we see Suplai village of Bistrița-Năsăud County. The village is a human settlement, a place where people live. However, compared to a town, fewer people live in a village. Besides that, to have better living conditions, each family in the village has developed a household. In a rural household, the house is facing the street or country road. In the yard, there is a summer kitchen, barn, cows’ stall, pens for pigs, birds and rabbits, toilet, fountain, and other constructions. Moreover, the area occupied by dwellings, animal shelters, feeding stuff deposits, human food deposits, or buildings for the public interest is called the hearth of the village. The buildings for public interest are composed of school, village hall, church, dispensary or medical office, post office, shops, community centre and others. In the village, dwellings and other buildings that have 1-2 levels are the most common. Further, another interesting fact is that the building density in villages is lower than in towns. The street network consists of poorly developed streets and alleys. On the side of the streets, there are ditches/gullies and sidewalks. The area outside the village is called the estate of the village. The arable lands, hayfields, pastures, forests, orchards, and vineyards occupy the land outside the hearth of the village. Moreover, cereals, potatoes, sunflowers, rapeseed, etc. are grown on the arable land. The hayfields are the mowed grassland from which the hay (dry grass) is collected. We recognize them by the bales of hay. |
