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Curtea de Argeș Monastery Romania .Beautiful aerial view

The Curtea de Argeș Monastery, a symbol of history and spirituality in Romania, is located in the city of Curtea de Argeș, in a unique natural setting. Built in the Byzantine style, it is renowned not only for its religious importance, but also for its architectural beauty. If you look at the Curtea de Argeș Monastery from a beautiful aerial view, you will easily notice the remarkable details of the building: its high-spired roofs, ornate facades and the inner courtyard, a place of peace and reflection. An enchanting view stretches around the monastery, and the nearby mountain landscape adds an extra touch of majesty to this sacred place, making it a point of attraction not only for pilgrims from all over the world, but also for art and history lovers. Among the monuments that have been built over the centuries, of all that have adorned the voivodeship of Argeș, the church built by Neagoe Basarab (1512-1521) is undoubtedly the most valuable construction of church art and architecture. According to all sources, Neagoe Basarab built his church on the foundations of an older place, which was none other than the seat of the first Metropolitanate of Wallachia. Finding it “destroyed and unfortified... he built and raised it from the foundations”, a fact that a chronicler of the great voivode’s achievements, Gavriil Protul, confirms. In this form, the church of the Curtea de Argeș Monastery remains, for the architecture of the 16th century, if not the most outstanding monument, then one of its most representative constructions. The monastery was built by Neagoe Basarab between 1515-1517 on the site of the old metropolitanate of 1359. Three years after his accession to the throne of Wallachia, more precisely in 1515, Neagoe Basarab began the construction of this monastery. "But Neagoe spent all his efforts and all his wealth to give Argeș, from where the Metropolitan had left to settle in Târgoviște near the Lord (who, however, sometimes also stayed in Argeș, close to his Transylvanian supporters), the most beautiful of the monasteries located on Romanian soil".[8] The works were completed three years later, so that on January 7, 1517, the founder could even speak of "the monastery of my reign in Argeș", and to assign to it "the customs that is at Ocna Mică in Târgoviște...". Listening not only to the legend, but also to some historical news, it seems that due to lack of money, despite the sacrifice of his lady's ornaments, but especially due to lack of days, the painting of the church could not be completed before Neagoe Basarab's eternal passing. The voivode's son-in-law, Radu de la Afumați (1522-1529), once ascended the throne, consecrated the continuation of the decoration of the settlement, through the writing of September 10, 1526, which also mentions the name of Dobromir the painter. The interior painting, made by Dobromir, was finished in 1526 and is preserved in fragments in the National Museum of Art in Bucharest. The monastery is mentioned in documents and remembered by foreign travelers who took refuge in its cells. Some of them, like Paul of Aleppo, in 1654, considered the ancient settlement of Neagoe as "one of the wonders of the world". The same words of high esteem were noted, in 1794, by the Englishman Robert Ainslie and - later - by the painters Bouquet[when?] and Lancelot[when?], whose travel notes and prints made the fame of the monastery of Neagoe Basarab circulate beyond the borders of the country.