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2021-07-04 17h33 Campulung Muscel: Casa Domneasca

The Princely / hierarchical house (casa domneasca) built in the 17th secular on foundations dating from 1301.

 

The monastery of Negru Voda of Campulung-Muscel, would have been founded in 1215 by Radu Negru Voievod, considered as the founder of the Principality of Wallachia. Later it was occupied by Basarab I and his son, Nicolae Alexandru. And it will be rebuilt by the second founder ’Matei Basarab (1635-1638). .

The church is surrounded by stone walls and has a tall bell tower at the entrance in the form of a fortress, often serving as a place of defence.

The Monastery is composed by:

The princely church "Assumption" dating from the 14th century,

The Church of the Sick "Birth of St. John the Baptist" dating from 1718,

The abbot's house dating from 1635,

The Princely / hierarchical house (casa domneasca) built in the 17th secular on foundations dating from 1301.

The bell tower (35 meters high) dating from 1647

The Cells dating from the 14-19th centuries,

The precinct wall of the church were built in the 14-17th centuries,

The precinct wall of the monastery dates from 1712.

The fortifications dating from the mid-14th century are made in the form of a wave of gravel and rocks 9 meters wide surrounded by a 2.5 meters deep moat filled with water. The Royal Palace was the core around which all the other constructions that will form the Negru Voda Monastery were added along the way.

 

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