Most of the Bratians are buried at St. John's Church in Florica. A somewhat sordid gate made out of wire, painted in green is the visible sign that you have just entered an area full of history.

The place is an oasis of greenery and tranquility. And, before walking about three hundred meters on the winding road that leads to Vila Florica, it is worth stopping on a plateau on the right, where St. John the Baptist Church is, the place where most of the Brătianu family members are buried The church was built in 1898 following the plans of the French architect Andre Lecomte du Nouy, ​​the same one who had restored the Curtea de Argeş monastery.

The church was consecrated on May 19, 1921, with a view to moving the coffin of Ion C. Bratianu into the new chapel, solemnity that took place three days later, the service being officiated at the time by the Metropolitans Miron Cristea, the first patriarch of Romania and Nicolae Balan of Sibiu.

Occasionally, and only with special approvals, the Bratians church is now officiating weddings. The ground floor library houses a table made of petrified cherry.

From the Bratians church to Vila Florica you can walk about ten minutes. In a few minutes, in front of your eyes is revealed the mansion in which the most important family of Romanian politicians was born and lived, a true civil dynasty that gave the country no less than three prime ministers, of which the first two - Ion and Ionel Brătianu - had an overwhelming role in the achievement of modern Romania, with the name of the first linking the war of Independence, the second realizing - also after the war - the 1918 Union and the reforms that were the basis of the inter-war democracy.

 The Florica villa was relocated in 2013 to the heirs of the Bratians, and the new owners signed a free-of-charge agreement with the "Brătianu" Culture Center, which operates here. The building is well maintained, and this can be seen both on the outside and inside, after climbing the wooden stairs that are one century old. The ground floor library houses one of the few original pieces of furniture that have been kept in the house.

It is a "dalada table", a table made of petrified cherry wood, a traditional Arab method, being purchased in 1860 at an auction in Paris by Ion C. Brătianu.

 The table is much older, dating from the 20th century. in the sixteenth century.

On the ceramic tiles are evoked some moments (some zoomorphic) from the traditional Persian life.

The stove, among the few that have been kept in the house, is decorated with a three-stranded belt that can be found on the east side of the house and on the family chapel. From this library access was made in the bedroom of Ion and Pia Brătianu.

The Florica villa has a total of 40 rooms. The first house in Florica was built by Ion C. Brătianu in 1858, on the part of the estate that returned to him after his father's succession. Initially, Brătianu had opted for the Tigveni estate, where he had spent his childhood, but - at the request of his older brother, Theodor - he received the third lot of estates, which included Florica, Mălureni, Galeşul - Brătieni, Lereşti and Sîmbureşti. Ion C. Brătianu (1821 - 1891) sold part of the other estates, but bought next to Florica via Floreasca, living which will concern him very much, caring for it and exploiting it according to the most modern recipes.

He was pleased with his choice for Florica, to the detriment of the Tigvans who evoked his childhood. "What would I have done without Florica? Here I have always found my body and soul ”, confessed Ion Brătianu in 1887. The construction of the house in Florica began in 1858, after Ion C. Brătianu married Pia Pleşoianu, the new family establishing the home in a rural area.From the house with four rooms and a wine cellar, the old Brătianu built a mansion with a beautiful open terrace on the ground floor. The upstairs terrace is also a magnificent one, from there you can see the panorama of the city of Pitesti.

What Ionel Brătianu said in 1909: "What I did in Florica I would like to do in all of Romania" As long as "Vizirul" (Ion C. Brătianu) lived, the house maintained that sober style, imposed by its simple tastes.

 Hardly, towards the end of his life, he was convinced by his son Ionel, a construction engineer, that he needed to renovate the house.

As it shows today, the whole of Florica is the result of Ionel Brătianu's passion for building "which overturned almost everything that remained of his father and which from a house next to a vineyard made a comfortable installation with park, farm and even with an astronomical observer ”.

The style of the house is non-Romanian, blending the modern with the traditional. Ionel Brătianu would respond to a question in Parliament on February 8, 1909, as follows: “The house as my father left is changed, as my father changed the house as my grandfather left it. My uncle left a house with a cellar and four rooms. My father added eight more rooms. For my part, I also added and I hope that future generations, for the love they have for Florica, they will add something else ... What I did in Florica I would like to do in the all of Romania as well. ”

Thousands of volumes of priceless value were burned by communists.

Only the furniture remains from the upstairs library. As Ionel Brătianu lived, "nobody touched the stocks from Florica"; after 1927, 5000 volumes were moved from the library to the Foundation Library "Ion I.C. Bratianu " after 1948 the library in Florica was destroyed, only a very small part of the books being donated to the Romanian Academy and other libraries.

Thousands of volumes were burned in the manor park for several weeks. Besides the books, the library and the mansion in Florica also had a rare collection: the photographs of the Brătianu family."

Apart from books - Constantin Argetoianu remembered - the most interesting decoration of the house in Florica was the endless collection of photographic memories, snapshots of Brătianu's life, but especially of Ionel's, framed - either one or the other. More in one place - and hanging on all the walls, in places where bookcases were still available, but especially along stairs and corridors. ” It is also called the "Mecca of the Liberals" At the Florica mansion, the life of the Brătianu family unfolded patriarchal, following the rules imposed by Ion C. Brătianu and strictly adhered to. For the education of children, a Swiss governess, Marie Bornand, was employed, who taught German, French, piano, drawing and religion.

A day in Florica began, for children, with the morning shower, followed by lessons, from 8:00 to 11:30, when breakfast was served, after which the children had a play program in the park. For years, Sabina Brătianu remembered "the slopes on the hill with the tar and the copia", the jumps on hay bales, the horse races. Davilla and Fălcoianu participated in these childhood games. Important moments in the lives of Ion and Piei Brătianu's children were Christmas and family holidays attended by all relatives and friends.

 In fact, Florica has never been an isolated island; relatives and friends often passed the household ; In 1922, Ionel could not yet be freed from the miraculous world of his childhood in Florica. In the winter of 1864-1865 the C.A. family Rosetti was hosted by the Brătianu family at Vila Florica, spending a winter here which they later recalled with pleasure. The Florica Mansion is also nicknamed the "Mecca of the Liberals", given the huge importance of the Bratians in the history of the liberals and especially of Romania.