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	COZIA MONASTERY / MANASTIREA COZIA - English Summary
		After Cozia was thus embellished and extended by these new founders, whose portraits are painted on the monastery walls, other repairs have been made in the following centuries or in the first decades of the 20th century under the patronage of the Board of Historical Monuments.
		Cozia has nevertheless regained its former aspect, but only in the years of the popular power did it acquire its seven windows, each adorned with different sculptural and floral compositions which belong to the time of Mircea the Ancient.
		Distance of the road which passes in front of the monastery, the ruins of “Old Cozia” look upon the visitor: centuries ago it was a hermitage in the middle of an imposing mountainous amphitheater; it was also described by Paul of Alep as a remarkable ecclesiastic monument, named “Hermitage of St. John of the Rock”.
	www.manastirea-cozia.go.ro /summary.htm (1047 words)

	Cozia Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cozia Monastery, erected by Mircea cel Bătrân in 1388 and boasting his tomb, is one of the most valuable monuments of national medieval art and architecture in Romania.
		The appearance of the compound was modified under Neagoe Basarab (1517), Şerban Cantacuzino and Constantin Brâncoveanu (1707), who added a veranda, a new fountain, a chapel and a watch tower, adding to its architecture the 'brâncovenesc style'.
		Cozia features a museum of exhibiting old art: old manuscripts and prints, embroideries and objects of worship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cozia_Monastery (163 words)

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		On Saturday, august 12th, at Cozia Monastery, over 2000 mourners, 2 bishops, generals, politicians, decorated military heroes and local townspeople attended the burial of the man that could have been King of Romania, but whose a destiny was against him.
		The ceremony at Cozia Monastery fulfilled a part of HRH Prince Carol Mircea-Grigore of Romania last wish: being buried on Romanian soil.
		This portrait is painted also on other votive panels in the precincts of the monastery: in the northern chapel and in the monastery's hospice («Bolnita»).
	www.printulpaulderomania.ro /arhiva/inmormantare_cozia_en.php (387 words)

	Muntenia and Oltenia - Valcea - Turism, vacanta, munte, litoral, aventura, harti si fotografii in Romania prin Romanian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		• The Cozia Massif-(Cozia Peak, 1,668 m), it is situated in the south-western part of the Fagaras Mountains, between the rivers Olt (in the west), Baias (in the north), Topolog (in the east), Salatrucul (in the south), near Calimanesti-Caciulata spa.
		The Cozia Massif is easy to climb for all travellers who can admire many rocks with bizzare forms, beautiful gorges (Bulzului, Rosiei) and waterfalls ("Gardului", with heights of 20 m), the diversity of plant species (edelweiss, multicoloured tulip, white daffodil) and the interesting fauna (wild cat, lynx, chamois, deer, Carpathic scorpion).
		The monastery was rebuilt by Vlad the Monk and by Radu the Greater, and in the 17th century, Matei Basarab restored it and brought here a printing press which gave us the 1640 "Pravila de la Govora", the oldest law book printed in Wallachia.
	www.romaniantourism.com /index.php?unde=zonetur&id_cont=73 (2238 words)

	Byzantium after Byzantium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Murals from the Cozia Monastery (Erected in 1388)
		He also exempts the monastery from the tax of 1000 sheep, 1000 beehives, 50 swine, etc. The monks shall mention his name in their services all year round as long as the monastery exists.
		Many monasteries from Turkish-occupied lands were bestowed with all of the estates, dependencies and even relics of local churches and monasteries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Byzantium_after_Byzantium (2230 words)

	Voyager tourism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On the Olt river valley, seaming raised from the waves of the river is the famous monastery from Cozia, which encloses a world of memories, heroic facts and legendary figures.
		Built between 1387-1388 on the place of an old cult building, the monastery had remained, with all its adding and remaking of the next centuries, the most beautiful foundation of Mircea the Old, whose portrait and tomb is here.
		From the architectonic ensemble from Cozia can be remarked the hospital church, "Bolnita", from the 16th century, which keeps in the interior the original frescoes, among the portraits being those of Mircea the Old and of his son.
	www.onlineservice.ro /voyager/en/cozia.html (231 words)

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		Cozia Monastery was founded by ruling prince Mircea the Old (Vlad the Impaler's grandfather) in 1388.
		The pronaos still keeps fragments of the original Byzantine monastic painting made between 1390 and 1391, while the rest of mural paintings are the result of the restoration work performed in 1719.
		The church was repaired in 1517 by prince Neagoe Basarab and the fountain in front of the monastery that bears his name was made at the same time.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/honor1017/7218.html (106 words)

	Cozia Monastery
		The Cozia set of buildings has also two chapels dating back to the 16th and 18th centuries, with original mural paintings of those times, and two bells made in 1395, and in 1413 respectively.
		The Cozia Monastery was an important medieval cultural centre where monk scholars and their disciples would print, translate and interpret many religious books written in Slavonic, and thus render them accessible to the Romanians.
		In the same old tradition, it is at Cozia Monastery that the Romanian poet Grigore Alexandrescu wrote one of the best known pieces of Romanian poetry studied by children at school and entitled 'The Shadow of Mircea at Cozia'.
	www.rotravel.com /romania/monasteries/cozia.php (562 words)

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		The church of the Negru Voda Monastery, which bears the name of Wallachia`s first ruler, founded in the early 14th century is the town`s ain attraction.
		The Monastery church houses the holy relics of Sfântul Gheorghe Decapolitul ("Saint George the Beheaded").
		Râmnicu Vâlcea - the Govora Monastery - the Bistrita Monastery and Cave - the Horezu Monastery (lunch) - the Mãldãresti cule - the Polovragi Monastery and Cave - Târgu Jiu.
	www.dominotravel.ro /oltenia.html (2489 words)

	ROMANIAN MONASTERIES - Monasteries of VALCEA
		Arnota Monastery, convent for nuns, was founded by Matei Basarab in 1634.
		Monastery for monks, founded by Mares Bajescu, great village chief, and his wife, Maria, in 1666.
		It is the only monastery that kept the properties after the secularization and preserved the way of life from Mount Athos (women are not allowed in the monastery and they do not cook meat).
	www.romanian-monasteries.go.ro /valcea.htm (552 words)

	Paloma Tours - Travel Agency
		The monastery of COZIA one of the most valuable monuments of 14-th century architecture, stranting point for Byzantine style in Wallachia.
		Founded in 1690 by Prince Constantine Brancovan, the monastery of Horezu, in Walachia, is a masterpiece of "Brancovan" style, known for its architectural purity and balance, the richness of its sculpted detail, its treatment of religious compositions, its votive portraits and its painted decorative works.
		The school of mural and icon painting established at the monastery of Horezu in the 18th century was very well-known throughout the Balkan region.
	www.palomatours.com /incoming/monasteries.html (259 words)

	Monasteries of Oltenia
		The monastery was built in 1388 in the Byzantine style.
		The legend says that this place was sacred and a long time before the new church was built, there was a small chapel here, made entirely from the timber of just one oak.
		At the monastery of Horezu the gorgeous stone carved leaves and flowers that delicately adorn the columns contrast well with the immaculate whiteness of the walls.
	www.students.missouri.edu /~romsa/destinations/html/oltenesti.html (710 words)

	Travel Guide Romania - Olt County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On the slopes of Mount Cozia, around the celebrated monastery with the same name and the thermal resort of Calimanesti, a botanical and sylvan reservation extends over 5,000 ha; it provides shelter to a rare endemic flora, endangered animal species, and rocks of particular geological interest.
		The church of the Caluiu Monastery has original frescos of Michael the Brave's wife and the Buzesti brothers.
		The Clocociov Monastery was built on a settlement of ruler Michael the Brave.
	www.travelguide-romania.ro /county.php?lang=en&id=37 (228 words)

	Cozia Monastery
		Cozia Monastery erected by Mircea the Old in 1388 and boasting his tomb, is one of the most valuable monuments of national medieval art and architecture in Romania.
		The appearance of the compound was modified under Neagoe Basarab (1517), Serban Cantacuzino and Constantin Brancoveanu (1707), who added a verandah, a new fountain, a chapel and a watch tower, adjoining to its architecture the 'brancovenesc style'.
		Cozia boasts a museum of old art exhibits: old manuscripts and printings, embroideries and cult objects.
	earomania.com /attractions/cozia.html (204 words)

	Romania - Intelligent Guided Tours with a Personal Touch for Groups & Individuals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Visit to the Cozia Monastery – built during the reign of Mircea the Elder in 1387-1388.
		Built between 1387-1388, on the remains of an old church, Cozia Monastery is, with all the adding along time, the most beautiful church built by Mircea the Old.
		His portrait and tomb are to be found here, as well as the tomb of Mihai the Brave mother’s, known under the name of Teofana (she died after 5 years of her sons death).
	tourism.earomania.com /tours/best_of_romania/d12.html (199 words)

	Tourism - Northern Oltenia - Cozia Monastery
		On the Olt river valley, seaming raised from the waves of the river is the famous monastery from Cozia, which encloses a world of memories, heroical facts, and legendary figures.
		Build between 1387-1388 on the place of an old cult building, the monastery had remained, with all its addings and remakings from the next centuries, the most beautiful foundation of Mircea cel Batrân, whose portrait and tomb is here.
		From the architectonic ensemble from Cozia can be remarked the hospital church, "Bolnita", from the 16th century, which keeps in the interior the originar frescoes, among the portraits being those of Mircea cel Bãtrân and of his son.
	www.ici.ro /romania/en/turism/no_cozia.html (312 words)

	Marshal Turism - Trips, The Monasteries Tour on the Olt Valley, Bucharest - Curtea De Arges - Cozia - Horezu - Bucharest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		COZIA Monastery is one of the most valuable monuments of XIV century architecture, point of reference for Byzantine style from Wallachia.
		Built in 1690 by the Price Constantin Brancoveanu, Horezu Monastery is a masterpiece of the brancovenesque style, recognized for the purity of the architecture and for its equilibrium, for the richness of the sculptural details, the treatment of religious themes and for the decorative painting and votive portraits works.
		The mural and icons painting school founded at Horezu Monastery in XVIII century was well known in the Balkans.
	www.marshal.ro /en/index.php?cat=23&idcircuit=9 (388 words)

	Original World Journeys
		Drive to Rmnicu Valcea for lunch and along the picturesque Olt Valley to Cozia Monastery, one of the oldest monasteries in Romania built in 1386.
		Humor Monastery painted by Toma of Suceava, 1530, and the Voronet Monastery, built in 1488, one of the most beautiful and dubbed the "Sistine Chapel of the East." Moldovita Monastery is where the UNESCO Golden Apple award givento the painted churches back in 1975, is kept.
		On the south facade of Moldovita is The Siege of Constantinople belonging to the 24 episodes of the Hymn to the Holy Virgin.
	www.originalworldjourneys.com /EUROPE/Romania/privatetour.html (763 words)

	Romania Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The personality of this church is given by the decoration of the façade, and the unusually massive tower of the nave.
		Today’s church of Negru Voda Monastery was founded by Matei Basarab in the 17th century, and restored in the 19th after a terrible earthquake.
		The most important part of the monastic structure seems to be nowadays the precinct with towers on corners, the cells with portals on brick pillars at the first floor, archways on pillars to the second floor, and the Princely Court with a watchtower on stone pillars.
	www.romaniatravel.com /index.php?lng=en&tree=181 (2207 words)

	The Orthodox Monasteries Worldwide Directory - A comprehensive collection of orthodox monasteries around the world ...
		The Bistrita Monastery is a Nuns Monastery, established at 1492 by Craiovescu brothers.
		Cozia Monastery has been established in 1388 by the Prince Mircea the Old and then has been repeatedly restored by Prince Neagoe Basarab and Serban Cantacuzino.
		Cozia Monastery is an important historical monument treasuring the tombs of Prince Mircea the Old and Teofana - the mother of Prince Michael the Brave.
	www.orthodox-monasteries.com /romania/Valcea (552 words)

	Perfect Tour >> RAMNICU VALCEA - MAIN CITIES AND ATTRACTIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The monastery is the sample of well preserved Wallachian architecture, with Byzantine influences.
		Served by 50 nuns, the monastery is particularly well-preserved and administrated.
		The most valuable asset of the monastery is the icon of Virgin Mary (a legend has it that a monk found it in the hollow of an old oak tree), it is 1.5m high and 1.10m wide; it was silvered in 1812.
	www.perfect-tour.ro /en/ramnicu-valcea.html (620 words)

	KARPATEN TURISM ROMANIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On the way, short visit of the fortified small monastery Cozia, which was built by the monarch Mircea the Old during years 1386-1388.
		These monasteries, painted in Byzantine style, true masterpieces which are here from the glorious times of the Moldavian culture (15th century), were declared as belonging the world cultural heritage by UNESCO.
		Afterwards we visit the monastery Moldovita which is famous for its outside frescoes, and the monastery Sucevita where the painting on the north side still intactly in the original condition well preserved is. Then we drive to Suceava.
	www.karpaten.ro /eng/flug/p18.htm (1007 words)

	Transylvania and The Monasteries of Bucovina in Romania
		Transylvania and The Monasteries of Bucovina in Romania
		Drive along the picturesque Olt Valley to Cozia Monastery (visit) and Sibiu, one of the oldest towns in Transylvania - formerly Hermannstadt - founded by the Saxon colonists.
		Visit the Sinaia Monastery (1695) and the fabulous Peles Castle - former summer residence of the Royal family.
	www.romaniatravelcentre.com /tours/Bucovina.htm (725 words)

	EMN Congress 2004
		Such a place is Tismana, a nun monastery situated close to the top of the mountain, in the vicinity of a fall.
		The origins of the nun monastery at Govora go down to 1492, during the reign of Radu cel Mare, the ruler who restored it in the place of an older establishment.
		Another monastery that can be visited is the monastery Surpatele, founded by princess Maria, the wife of the ruler Constantin Brâncoveanu.
	www.rsn.ro /emn/oltenia.htm (823 words)

	RomaniaTours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The pride of the valley is the resort of Sinaia, where future king of Romania, Prince Carol I, enchanted by the beauty of the surroundings, decided to build his summer residence, the Peles Castle.
		On a hill overlooking the fortress and the city there is Dealu Monastery, one of the most important cultural centres of the Middle Ages in Wallachia.
		You will start with Comana Monastery settled by Vlad the Impaler to the South of the city, in a swampy area that saved it from the often Turkish invasions.
	www.amphoratravel.com /RomaniaTours.html (2220 words)

	Dracula's Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Details: After meeting and a two hours drive we'll arrive at one of the most beautiful orthodox monasteries in the South Eastern Europe, built by Vlad's grandfather Mircea the Old, king of Valachia between 1386 and 1418.
		Next we'll visit Pestera Muierii (Women's cave), famous for the fact that throughout the Middle Eve women in the area use to hide here together with the elder and the children whilst their husbands fought the Turkish invasions.
		We'll visit a monastery where monks dug their accommodations in the bear rock, another one so well hidden among mountains and trees that you can't see it unless you are less than 200 meters away, and finally at 5472 feet you can admire the whole area from above.
	www.outdoorproject.ro /index_files/Dracula_Trail.htm (865 words)

	Continental Journeys
		Drive across Ramnicu Valcea and along the picturesque Olt Valley for a visit to the Cozia Monastery then on to Sibiu (0ne of the oldest towns in Transylvania, formerly known as Hermannstadt and founded by Saxon Colonists).
		Today you will visit the unique monasteries with outside frescoes of Moldovita, Sucevita and Voronet known as the "Sistine Chapel of the Orient." Lunch will be served en route.
		In Sinaia visit the Sinaia Monastery built in 1695 and to the fabulous Peles Castle, the former summer residence of the Romanian Royal family.
	www.continentaljourneys.com /package_results.php?country=&package_id=478 (464 words)

	Top Travel Service-Incoming
		After breakfast in hotel, tour of the Moldavian Monasteries: Moldovita, Sucevita, Voronet (often called "The Sixtine Chapel of the East", painted in a unique shadow of blue, known all over the world as "Voronet blue") and Agapia (partially painted by N. Grigorescu).
		Stop in Sinaia to visit Sinaia Monastery and the fabulous Peles Castle (former summer residence of the Royal Family).
		Drive to Sinaia to visit Sinaia Monastery and the fabulous Peles Castle (former summer residence of the Royal Family).
	www.top-travel.ro /incoming.htm (895 words)

	Monasteries of Romanian Orthodox Church - † Orthodox Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Holy Monastery of Tismana is one of the oldest, the most important and the most beautiful monasteries in Romania.
		The Monastery of Hodos-Bodrog (village of Bodrogu Nou, commune of Felnac, district of Arad) is one of the oldest monastic institutions belonging to the Romanian Orthodox Church.
		See also: Monasteries of Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Monasteries of Romanian Orthodox Church, Monasteries of Serbian Orthodox Church, Monasteries of Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Monasteries of Patriarchate of Antioch, Monasteries of Patriarchate of Alexandria, Monasteries of Ecumenical Patriarchate, Monasteries and Convents of Orthodox Church of Greece, Saints, Monasteries and Convents
	www.orthodoxlinks.info /orthodoxy/churches/romania/rommonasteries (436 words)

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