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Media Reports - The important newspaper Editie Speciala had a good article on the opening of the Information Point at Vogna, and Dr Gheorghe and the Alexis Project have published a book about lost churches from Oltenia, and are proud to announce to everyone that they want to...do more!!!
Last updated Thursday, 26th January, 2012
Sub-Lieutenant Stancu Barbu, Hero of Romania, was killed in World War II while defending his homeland.
Last updated Monday, 16th January, 2012
Forgotten Heroes - this page is to honour people who have died, but have not received the recognition they deserve.
Last updated Sunday, 15th January, 2012
The Alexis Project, with the help of Dr Dorel Bondoc from Oltenia Museum, made a search at a Roman site in the western part of Orlea village, Olt County. There were a lot of artefacts in the frozen field, with some from the Bronze age, not just from ancient Roman times.
Last updated Friday, 30th December, 2011
Mysterious objects found inside the wooden tube behind the dam wall at Old Bîlta have been identified as the black edible nodules on the roots of horsetails, Equisetum sp., which were collected and used for food, though some effort was required to harvest them. In Romanian, the plant is called Coada Calului.
Last updated Saturday, 17th December, 2011
Mammals of Romania - Adrian was passing over the Bodaiesti Hills, coming from Filiasi and going to the Vogna valley, when he found another Bursuc, or Badger, on the road, a male killed by a car.
Last updated Friday, 14th October, 2011
Storks are getting organised into flocks to fly south for the warmer weather, as the cold weather approaches.
Last updated Friday, 14th October, 2011
Gruita Church is badly in need of repair and conservation. The church has been strengthened, and warning barriers have been put up to prevent visitors from endangering themselves, but
it has been scorched by fire, and the building has become dangerous to enter.
Last updated Wednesday, 05th October, 2011
Romania Today - This page is to show the good and the bad things about living in Romania, some of the quirky and unusual things that may be found here. Ponoarele is a beautiful monument which tourists are leaving untidy and apparently uncared for, although good things are happening by the authorities, with a good road, and repairs to God's Bridge.
Last updated Sunday, 18th September, 2011
The Alexis team made another visit to Ostrovu Mare Island. It is only possible to visit this site in summer, since it is under water for most of the year. The area which will receive the most attention is on the left bank of the Danube, where the ancient Basilica site is. The entire area is still covered with artefacts, too good to be lost under the waters of the Danube.
Last updated Saturday, 10th September, 2011
Beautiful Romania, a wonderful place. The Balkan Mountains on the horizon.
Last updated Tuesday, 23rd August, 2011
Wells and springs of Romania - a fine well has been found in a field in the Desa area, operated by a long wooden pole known as a whip, with a hand made iron chain to raise and lower the bucket.
Last updated Sunday, 21st August, 2011
A beautiful male Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator) was found on the banks of the Danube in the Desna area. They are a large and powerful species of hawker dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae, found mainly in Europe and nearby Africa and Asia.
Last updated Thursday, 18th August, 2011
Plants of Romania - Flowers of the Vogna area.
Last updated Wednesday, 17th August, 2011
The Alexis Project has received authorisation to repair Vogna. Adrian had a dream of creating a monument to all the destroyed churches of Oltenia, a small wooden church. This will function as an Information Centre for tourists, and most of the structure is now complete at the end of the 2011 season. The Grand Opening was a huge success, and was attended by many important guests. Dr Gheorghe has added more icons to the Information Point. 
During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, Grivitza was the location of an important Ottoman position featuring several redoubts and acting as part of the defensive fortifications of Pleven. The Battle of Grivitza was part of the prolonged Siege of Plevna which resulted in the death of many Russian and particularly Romanian soldiers. Dr Gheorghe has bought, to be donated to the Military Museum in Pleven, a very rare photograph from the period of the Russian - Turkish war of 1877-1878, of a Turkish ship, the Lutfi Djebl, sunk in 1877 in the Măcin Channel, at the time the main channel for ships as the Danube travels north just before turning east to empty into the Black Sea.
Dolni Vadin or Gorni Vadin, Горни Вадин, in Bulgaria, on the right bank of the Danube, is the site of an ancient Roman bridge and fortress, remains of which can still be seen today. Adrian made a successful search there. In a later trip to the opposite bank in Romania, at Grojdibodu village, no evidence of the Roman bridge, or even Roman artefacts, on the opposite side to the existing Roman bridge ruins was found. Two ancient maps, one showing a bridge, have been included.
Adrian found this old forgotten church in Grojdibodu village, Olt County. It is very old, possibly from the 1700s, an unknown ghost church. Many churches like this are lying in bad repair, even destroyed, in the whole Oltenia area. The church was originally one of the famous traditional Romanian painted churches, but all of the paintings are now being destroyed by neglect and the weather, which is no longer kept out by the roof. There are a lot of old stone crosses around it, now forgotten and falling over in disrepair. 
The Alexis Team has begun important projects for International cooperation. 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.
Cioroiu Nou - At the site of Cioroiu Nou, Arch. Exp. Dr Dorel Petrus Bondoc works to bring to light the glory of ancient Roman times. Step by step, huge 'new' buildings appear in the eastern area of the ancient Romans Thermes/Bath, and the most important visitable site of Dolj County becomes bigger and more important, ready to apply for an EU project grant to promote it. The Alexis Project, in cooperation with the Oltenia Museum, and under the management of Prof. Univ. Dr Mihai Viorel Fifor, is ready to organise an EU project for the sites of Cioroiu Nou, in cooperaton with our Bulgarian friends, under the management of Miss Ec. Gabriela Antonova.
The Alexis Project team revisited Crivina, in particular Crivina 2, on the left bank of the Danube. It is an ancient site from the middle ages, not very far from Crivina 1, and also not very far from Crivina village. There are still a lot of artefacts lying around, including some especially beautiful pottery from Simian village, as well as bricks used as fishing weights for nets, and other ancient pottery.
On the Danube banks in the Ostrovu Mare area are many wooden towers for fishing. Some are huge, used when the river floods, especially in the Ostrovu Mare area. Others are smaller, not so high, in the Crivina area. Many people come to this area for fishing, in the wilderness, a beautiful landscape, and a good opportunity for tourists to stay here during their holidays.
Adrian and Arch. Dr. Florin Ridiche, the well known specialist from the Oltenia Museum went to the Desa area, on the left bank of the Danube. At the important site of Ruptura, there are a lot of artefacts from ancient Roman times and the Bronze age, including pottery, bricks and coins. It is important to make a good evaluation of the site, because very soon a new period of archaeology digs will start in the area, the Alexis project being part of this important endeavour. 
Girla Milan, near Grindul Pietris Island, on the left bank of the Danube River, in the Desa area, is a site where Dr Florin Ridiche previously discovered a cemetery. It is a Bronze/Iron Age site. Dr Ridiche and Adrian made a long search on this ancient site, and discovered a lot of artefacts, collected for the Oltenia Museum, but no new tomb was discovered, although a lot of ancient pottery and bricks were strewn around everywhere.