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 | | He would turn the old fortress into a real princely residence by changing its original structure, and by adding to it a chancellery, a guard house, stables, a recreation pavilion, and the present Annunciation church, which, alongside the vaulted cellars of the princely court, can still be admired nowadays. |
 | | For the time being, the status quo of the present Old Princely Court Museum is preferred to a thorough restoration that may reconstitute but one of its historic stages to the detriment of the other ones, which may somehow disconnect it from the natural course of its history. |
 | | The church of the Old Princely Court was the coronation place of Wallachia's ruling princes for almost three centuries (between the 2nd half of the 16th century and the 1st half of the 19th century). |
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