text: Paltinis: when nature becomes your friend | by Urooj Qureshi | Living Being | Medium
  Maria on Batrana Peak
  Paltinis has witnessed many beautiful memories. For Romanians, Paltinis is the proof that culture can survive in the harshest of environments. In the '70s the philosopher Constantin Noica ran a school here inspired by the Platonic academy. For almost ten years people participated at seminars and open discussions about fundamental texts and modern philosophy. During the communist years when the regime had imprisoned the freedom to think, in times when the right to express your ideas was actually a dream, Noica led what he called, " resistance through culture " right there in Paltinis.