Fagaras Fortress is the most imposing monument of the region, one of the largest and best preserved of the whole country and even Europe.
Built in the tenth century and the eleventh century and rebuilt several times, was one of the most important fortresses in Transylvania. Prince Michael the Brave and his family found refuge here in 1599. Between the XV and XVII, Fagaras fortress was enlarged and transformed in Renaissance style. In the seventeenth century, construction of guard of fifty surrounding villages.
The fortress served as the residence of princes of Transylvania, comprising diet on the first floor of the building. The castle has 80 rooms in the middle. The interior decoration, dating from the eighteenth century were not preserved.
Situated in the Fagaras Mountains, just 21 km from Fagaras, Dejani monastery was in a clearing (the valley Radului), instead of silence, stop the "garden of the Virgin".
It is not known exactly when and from whom the monastery was founded. Documents relating to it destroyed over time, there are very few. The existence of the sanctuary in the seventeenth century is attested by several inscriptions and notes made on the church books of Fagaras.
The monastery was a modest wooden building with stone foundation. Monks dwellings, small huts or huts of iemn is lost in the forest hiding. The place was isolated roads were not only a path to the mountain. in June 1761 the armies of General Buccow and destroyed the church burned to the ground Dejani monastery buildings. With this gone documents, manuscripts, icons, objects of worship, just a few of the monastery treasures were saved by locals and taken to the parish church.
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