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| "The thatched roofs are replaced by roofs of shingle that shine like silver in the sun" | 6 |
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| "Very different are the mountain villages from those of the plain. The cottages are less miserable" | 6 |
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| "Many a hearty welcome has been given me in these little villages" | 7 |
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| "Square, high buildings with an open gallery round the top" | 7 |
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| "It is especially in the Dobrudja that these different nationalities jostle together" | 10 |
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| "It had kept the delightful appearance of having been modelled by a potter's thumb" | 14 |
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| "Primitive strongholds, half tower, half peasant-house" | 14 |
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| "Richer and more varied are the peasants' costumes" | 14 |
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| "With an open gallery round the top formed by stout short columns" | 15 |
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| "Composed of a double colonnade.... Behind these colonnades are the nuns' small cells: tiny domes, little chambers" | 15 |
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| "A convent ... white and lonely, hidden away in wooded regions greener and sweeter than any other in the land" | 18 |
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| "This porch is decorated all over with frescoes" | 22 |
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| "Some were so old, so bent, that they could no more raise their heads to look up at the sky above" | 23 |
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| "Strange old monks inhabited it" | 23 |
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| "Silent recluses, buried away from the world" | 23 |
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| "An indescribable harmony makes its lines beautiful" | 26 |
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| "A lonely little cemetery, filled with crosses of wood" | 30 |
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| "On lonely mountain-sides" | 30 |
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| "Guarded by a few hoary old monks" | 30 |
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| "There lies a tiny wee church" | 30 |
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| "Tall and upright, with the pale, ascetic face of a saint" | 30 |
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| "Creatures so old and decrepit that they seem to have gathered moss like stones lying for ever in the same place" | 30 |
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| "When found in such numbers they are mostly hewn out of wood" | 31 |
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| "These strange old crosses ... they stand by the wayside" | 31 |
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| "Mostly they stand beside wells" | 34 |
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| "Quaint of shape, they attract the eye from far" | 38 |
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| "Sometimes they are of quaintly carved stone" | 38 |
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| "Strange old crosses that on all roads I have come upon" | 38 |
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| "Their forms and sizes are varied" | 38 |
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| "None of the greater buildings attract me so strongly as those little village churches" | 39 |
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| "The altar is shut off from the rest of the building by a carved and painted screen" | 39 |
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| "The roofs are always of shingle" | 42 |
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| "Varied indeed are the shapes of these peasant churches" | 46 |
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| "Their principal feature being the stout columns that support the porch in front" | 46 |
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| "But with some the belfry stands by itself" |
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