Fagaras Fortress-is the most imposing monument of the province, one of the largest and best preserved of the whole country and even Europe.
Fagaras feudal fortified complex, whose construction began in the late fourteenth century and continued by successive additions, until the middle of the seventeenth century, was preceded by a wooden fort, surrounded by a ditch and ground wave, certified archaeological twelfth century century. This fort, evidence of a local politico-military organization royal earlier in Fagaras, was destroyed in the middle of XIIHea, following a serious fire, as attested by the remains unearthed by archaeological excavations that accompanied the restoration.
Situated in the Fagaras Mountains, just 21 km from Fagaras, Dejani monastery was in a clearing (Radului Valley), instead of silence, stop the "garden of the Virgin".
It is unknown exactly when and from whom the monastery was founded. Documents relating to it destroyed over time, very few. The existence of the sanctuary in the eighteenth 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. Housing monks, small huts or booths of NEMP, lost in the woods hiding. The place was isolated, roads were not only a path to the mountain. in June 1761 the armies of General Buccow church burned to the ground and destroyed the monastery buildings Dejani. Once it disappeared documents, manuscripts, icons, liturgical objects, only some of the treasures of the monastery were rescued by locals and taken to the church rectory.
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