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These photographs document the important 2011 Conference for Cross Border Cooperation projects for Romania and Bulgaria at a Conference Centre in Pleven, Bulgaria, during which Miss Gabriela Antonova presented the delegates with the success of our last Project for the promotion of tourism in the area, with details of the important contribution made by the Alexis Project.
This is the real future for all European countries, where cooperation, motivation and promotion are vital. The world is changing, and the only way to survive is by cooperation and hard work.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 29th November 2011
Today the Alexis Project Association from Romania, and the Perpetuum Mobile Foundation from Bulgaria made an important donation for the National Military Museum in Pleven, Bulgaria. This donation consisted of a high quality replica 1877 Romanian flag, as well as books and maps of the 1877 - 1878 War of Independence, to improve the value of the Museum at Grivitza.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 12th November 2011
On the 11th of September, 2011, were celebrated 134 years since the Battle of Grivitza, Bulgaria, where, during the Russian-Turkish ware, in 1877, on the 30th August on the old calendar, the Romanian army won a huge victory against the Turkish Army.
There are celebrations there each year, and people get dressed up in the military uniforms of the time, and sometimes re-enact the battles.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 11th September 2011
As part of the event, The Alexis Project, together with the Perpetuum Mobile Foundation from Pleven, Bulgaria, made celebrations. The Alexis Project was represented by Adrian Gheorghe and his son Alexandru, and the Bulgarian Team by Miss Gabriela Antonova. The Alexis Project made a donation of important books to the Military Museam at Pleven.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 11th September 2011
The Alexis Project also laid a wreath at the Memorial to this Battle, in the Heroes Chapel of Grivitza. They lit candles and laid flowers at the Memorial.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 11th September 2011
It is wonderful the way that the Bulgarian people are so grateful to the Romanian people for helping them win their liberty for ever, after the 1877 Russian-Turkish war.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 11th September 2011
These photographs show our Bulgarian friends visiting some of the important cultural heritage places in Oltenia, including the Alexandru Macedonsky house, the Economu ghost house from the Goiesti area, and Cioroiu Nou.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 8th June 2011
Here Gabriela Antonova, manager of the Perpetuum Mobile company from Pleven, inspects the wonderful site of Cioroiu Nou, a future target for a European project to be made in cooperation between us and our Bulgarian friends.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 8th June 2011
A meeting in Craiova with old Bulgarian friends, concerning the Pleven International Project.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 6th June 2011
This is an ethnographical museum in Craiova, called Casa Baniei, which details the Oltenia area ethnography.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 17th May 2011
The Filisanu family chapel, in Filiasi.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 17th May 2011
The most important church in the entire area, a cathedral known as Sfantul Dumitru, almost in the centre of Craiova.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 17th May 2011
An interesting visit to one of the Oltenia Museum sections, about Nature, a modern and beautiful exhibition concerning the Oltenia region.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 17th May 2011
At the end of another hard day's work, the Mayor from Goiesti village invited us all to a small dinner at a restaurant inside the Vogna valley area to establish more connections for the future between us and our Bulgarian friends. The final movie will be ready in August 2011, and there are a lot of other plans in the pipeline for this cooperation within a European project.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 17th May 2011
The weather was grey and raining when the Alexis Team arrived in Bulgaria.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 3rd May 2011
The conference facilities were very well organised, with appropriate seating, lighting, and facilities for audiovisual presentations.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 3rd May 2011
Adrian made an excellent presentation about many of the targets for the Alexis Project.
The long presentation included a few short movies about the ancient Romans of the Cioroiu Nou site, as well as the ghost churches of Vogna and Gruita, the Tumuls of Baile Ionele, Bilta village, and Filisanu Chapel.
The presentation was followed with interest by the attendees, and the Alexis Team strongly believes that we have a real cooperation with our Bulgarian friends in this project.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 3rd May 2011
At Pleven there were also important people from the Oltenia Museum, as well as from the Directorate for Culture and Patrimony Protection, Dolj County, as well as other important personages from Dolj County. There were also a lot of Bulgarian friends, and there was a long meeting to decide how to promote tourism and culture/history across the borders of the two lands.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 3rd May 2011
Ms Gabriela Antonova is a young Bulgarian economist from Pleven in Bulgaria, the best representative in a European project that Adrian has met.
She is a hard working General Manager of a consulting company, PM Consulting Ltd., in a lot of European projects, with great success in a large number of quite different projects.
She is the Head of the Management Board of an active NGO, Perpetuum-mobile Foundation, which is working on different projects for the promotion of cultural, natural and historical heritage, and for the improvement of the social and economic situation in North Central Bulgaria.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 12th May 2011
Ms Antonova came to the Oltenia area to make an evaluation of our main sites for the present Alexis projects, including the Chapel of the Filisanu family, the Vogna ghost church, and the ghost church of Gruita village, in the Goiesti area.
The Alexis Team made a lot of plans with her for cooperation in the near future, and Adrian was very happy to meet her.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 12th May 2011
Cioroiu Nou site
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 15th May 2011
Radovan "Bad Valley" area
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 15th May 2011
Filasi/Bilta fossiliferous site
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 15th May 2011
Goiesti church
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 15th May 2011
Muereni/Goiesti village church
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 15th May 2011
Vogna ghost church
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 15th May 2011
Craiova, Children's Park
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 15th May 2011
Craiova, Botanic Garden
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 15th May 2011
Craiova, Romanescu park
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 15th May 2011
