Stories from Luana Country

The Buzau Mountains hide a series of treasures, as incomprehensible as they are fascinating. Luana Country is an emotionally charged place with a series of legends. When you get there, you’re overcome by a series of strange feelings: fear combined with a mad pleasure in exploration, a strange delirium, a restlessness caused by the beauty of the land, but also by the mystery of the space that seems to try to tell you what the ancestors did there.
You can see the Luana country as just a lover of walking, mountains and fresh air, which will delight you and make you come back, or you can follow it with the eyes of the deep, history-loving. In the latter case you’ll have a revelation; you’ll discover so many relics, rock dwellings, marked stones, hermitages and inlaid cliffs that you’ll be stuck in awe of this place. You’ll discover deep down inside a deep thirst to see and learn more.
Why is it called Luana Country?

Luana, although a feminine name, is said to have once been a king. This is said to have been the kind of person who knew it all, a great and fearless sage who, when his ostensians died in battle, sprinkled them with living water taken from the Valley of the Springs. Luana had a fortress with very high walls that seemed to touch the sky, and the sun’s rays were close to her whether it was day or night. Luana’s hosts were strong men, but one day they had to lose the sun that was their friend. Enemies came at them with fire and so the fortress burned. Even under the ground the fire penetrated half a metre, so that the Land of Luana was a desolate place. Legend says that not even birds came near the land since the sun was struck down. This sun probably explains why there are so many sun markings on the stones in the area, because you often see stars, crosses or even the sun itself inscribed on them. It says that in fact Luana was a very beautiful girl who came down from the sky and came with a chariot of fire. In this realm she took a liking to a local man and didn’t want to leave, which made her lover in heaven angry. He went mad with jealousy and came determined to destroy the land. In this legend Luana taught the locals to hide in the rocks where fire could not reach, which explains the existence of the rock settlements at Bozioru. It seems that when one of the locals was touched by fire, Luana cured him on the spot with dead and living water. The rocks in which the locals were hiding are those in the Cozanei area, and the attack took place on the Martirei Plateau. Is that why this beautiful flower-filled place has such a hard-to-explain name?
If the legend of the girl in the sky can’t be proven in any way, King Luana is attested as the third king of Sumer. What really happened there, no one knows. But a few things are certain and verified: that fortress burned, because researchers have found the extent of the burn. The marks on the stones, on the walls, the inscribed daggers, the paintings that seem to symbolize a battle, the seemingly historical air, all this makes me recommend you to visit the land called Tara Luana. None of what I have said is important compared to what you will experience if you go there.

Source: www.dinbuzau.ro