Boldesti-Scaeni

Boldesti-Scaeni is a town in Prahova County, southern Romania. Located approximately 15 km north of Ploiesti, it is an vital oil-extraction middle. It is situated inside the historical vicinity of Muntenia. The city was created in 1968 via the unification of two neighbouring communes, Boldesti and Scaeni. One village, Seciu, is run through the metropolis. Scaeni changed into the area of the simplest attempt to 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 provided through Emanoil Balaceanu, a local land-owner. The Wallachian government noticed this corporation as a chance and took a stand against it.

Therefore, the phalanstère became disbanded in 1836, a year and a 1/2 after it got here into lifestyles, with Diamant and Balaceanu sent into exile. Industry evolved inside the city after 1968, with a tumbler factory open in Scaeni. Many folks that live in Boldesti-Scaeni additionally paintings in the neighbouring metropolis of Ploiesti.