Bringing Verdi to a village near you: how urban and rural connect in Romania

Hai în Sat, an association established last year in Cluj county, has several projects connecting the rural and the urban, offering the residents of both an experience of the other.

Alin Pop, a founding member of the association, recalls noticing shortcomings in the experience of living in both environments and wanting to do something about it. This came from personal experience also. “I live in Cluj-Napoca, but my roots are in a village 10 km away from Cluj, Suceagu where I also have a house and I end up staying sometimes overnight,” he says.