Romania has the third lowest life expectancy in the European Union, at 76.6 years, but the inhabitants of a commune end up living even over 100 years.
The elderly from a commune in Romania live 100 years. Pixabay photo
More than 60% of the inhabitants of Glăvile commune in Vâlcea county are over 70 years old. Moreover, some of them have reached the threshold of 100 years, according to the “Map Longevity in Romania”.
“Faith first. In second place, respect. In third place work, honor and again work. Without work we can live nothing in this world. In the field we were with pigs, and sheep, and cows. If only she had her grandmother’s yard with goats. He gave them all to you at once and you went and grazed them, because it was people’s land“, say the locals.
Faith was what united people, in all aspects of life. They socialized totally differently than now, and the whole village met at church on Sundays. No one in the locality was a stranger to the others, they helped each other, told stories to each other and had fun together.
Even if the people seem happy now, their life was not easy at all. “I was little when my mother made some barley bread. She started crying, she said it was bear shit. I didn’t eat it! I didn’t have any. I was eating and living.”
“The people’s secret is that they have worked hard, they feed themselves from the yards, they produce everything they produce with their own hands, this food is healthy in the country, they don’t buy anything from the store. And they reached the age of 90. We even have a person who turned 99 recently.”explains Iustin Duicu, the mayor of Glăvile commune.
The research project “Longevity Map in Romania”, carried out at the national level by the Scientific Senate of the Dan Voiculescu Foundation for the Development of Romania, analyzes the factors that influence the longevity of seniors in the town of Glăvile, and will present the conclusions.
