Counts de Roma Manor Ensemble, Viziru
Ansamblul conților de Roma
sat Viziru; comuna Viziru, Brăila · Str. Trandafirilor nr. 20
Listed as accessible by Monumente Uitate
Summary
A historic manor ensemble in Viziru (Brăila County) that belonged to the de Roma counts, with an annex building, an ice house, a gated enclosure and a park. Part of it houses the Brăila county office of the agricultural payments agency APIA, while the rest has been reported as badly deteriorated and a section burned in March 2025.
Legal status
Listed as a group B historic monument (complex and park) by Ministry of Culture order of 26 June 2017, according to Adevărul ↗
History
The manor stood on the Viziru estate of the de Roma family, whose members descended from an old noble family of Zante. According to Ziarul Lumina (2014) and Adevărul, Count Petru de Roma (1833-1914) built the southern wing after marrying Sofia Ipsilanti in 1860; after her death he inherited the estate, and the northern wing was added about a decade later. He married Princess Maria Vogoridi in 1872, and their son Nicolae was born at the manor in 1875. Petru de Roma also founded the Orthodox church of Viziru in 1869. Adevărul reports that the state took the estate under the 1918 and 1921 land reforms and gave the palace to the Romanian Academy as an agricultural school, which opened in 1923; after 1947 it was repaired and used by agricultural offices of the Ministry of Agriculture, and since 1989 the Brăila county office of APIA has occupied part of it. The same article describes the rest as in semi-abandonment, with a broken roof. According to Jurnalul Brăilean, a fire in March 2025 burned part of the disused section while the APIA-occupied part was saved. The list of historic monuments protects the former manor, an annex, an ice house, the enclosure with its gates and the park, at Trandafirilor Street no. 20.
Transactions & prices
| Date | Type | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | Nationalisation | — | Taken by the state under the 1918 expropriation decree and the 1921 agrarian reform, then given to the Romanian Academy as an agricultural school, according to Adevarul; it reports that the owners were compensated. ↗ |
Listed components
- Fostul conac al conților de Roma (BR-II-m-B-21122.01)
- Clădirea-anexă (BR-II-m-B-21122.02)
- Ghețărie (BR-II-m-B-21122.03)
- Incinta cu porțile de acces (BR-II-m-B-21122.04)
- Parc (BR-II-m-B-21122.05)
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