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 | | The town of Curtea de Arges, loaded with history and legend, blending together the memory of the past and the shining present, is situated at the foot of the Fagaras Mountains, at the crossing of old commercial roads, in a zone of incomparable beauties of the Arges Valley. |
 | | Curtea de Arges, the former capital of the old Valachian country, and the residence of the first Basarabs, founders of the country, laws and customs, is the town the fame of an important touristic center, a real museum of our history laid in a natural landscape. |
 | | The fortress was built in the XIIIth century and it is the proof of Vlad Tepes's presence on Arges Valley. |
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