Several rural residences of the Bălăceni boyars (17th-18th centuries)

The Bălăceni boyar family was a large family, with two large branches separated, in the 17th century, from the two sons of Barbu (I) and Sima, Badea (III) and Pătrașcu (I) Bălăceanu. It is practically impossible to be able to locate the entire material heritage of the Bălăceni family, from the countryside, in the absence of archaeological evidence. We will try, in the present study, using the results of the archaeological research undertaken so far, bringing our modest contribution, where appropriate, to present only some of the secular constructions of the Bălăceni boyars, whose ruins can still be seen observed even today in the places where they once had their estates.