While on the Antonin Kratochvil workshop in Transylvania in May 2009, there were a lot of quick shots – meaning that there were these sudden chances that appeared on the horizont and which you could just jump on right that moment or forget about it alltogether. Due to my workshop focus (train travel) I am sure I missed quite a lot of interesting chances, but then again I managed to go to this one: a visit to THE historical horsemarket of the region, which apparently is the last remaining of it’s kind.
I am certainly not the most well informed person on horse markets, but hearing from our guide that this one was not only the last of it’s kind but also probably about to be closed down itself, did in fact surprise me. If you travel along Transylvania you just have to notice how important horses and horse carriages are as a means of transportation. Closing the old markets down did seem very odd to me. But from what I saw, it looked like it was run 100% by Roma – and sadly this might be one of the reasons for it’s disappearance.
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