Boldesti

Boldesti is a city in Prahova County, southern Romania. Located approximately 15 km north of Ploiesti, it is an important oil-extraction middle. It is situated in the historic location of Muntenia. The city turned into created in 1968 via the unification of two neighbouring communes, Boldesti and Scaeni. One village, Seciu, is run by the town. During World War II, the vicinity become substantially bombed, as part of Operation Tidal Wave. Scaeni turned into the region of the best try and create a Charles Fourier-kind phalanstère in Romania. In 1835, Theodor Diamant, a utopian socialist who had met Fourier in Paris, created the phalanstère, named The Agronomy and Manufacturing Society, on a patch of land furnished by Emanoil Balaceanu, a neighborhood land-proprietor.

The Wallachian government saw this agency as a hazard and took a stand towards it. Therefore, the phalanstère became disbanded in 1836, a year and a half of after it got here into existence, with Diamant and Balaceanu sent into exile. Air-raid shelters can nonetheless be located at the wooded hills round Boldesti. The metropolis's economy revolves round oil-extraction as well as winemaking. Almost half of of the town's surface is cultivated with vine. The Seciu winecellars are placed in the direct place of Boldesti.