Iasi town and the “residential culture†in 18th century

Abstract

We may say that in Iasi, new capital of old Moldavia Land in the 17th century, the concern for culture and the cultural information flow greatly influenced the residential aspirations of many of the upper and middle social class representatives. This fact is transparent in the transformations that the 18th century brought in the structure of Iasi dwellings. The town of Iasi gradually formed, based on various ways, a proper « residential culture » transmitted and enriched from one generation to another. Being the capital of Moldavia and important trade crossroads junction, Iasi town brought together in its public spaces people of various origins, belonging to a wide world not limited only to their familiar horizons. Its streets and squares were a place of gathering and exchange of much oral and written cultural information.