Curtea de Arges Monastery
Built at Curtea de Arges between 1512 and 1521 this monastery is one of the most beautiful religious monuments in the Balkans. It was built under the pious prince Neagoe Basarab’s supervision and following Artisan Manole’s plans.
Carol I and Ferdinand, the kings of Romania were buried in this monastery.
Here is Manole’s legend.
He was the Artisan who built the monastery together with his nine apprentices.
The ruler of that time asked Manole to build a glorious church on a place that was under a curse. Manole and his apprentices started working and working but what they would build during the day, collapsed during the night.
One night Manole saw in his dream that the walls would resist if the first woman bringing food to the workers was walled into the foundation of the monastery. The next day that woman happened to be Manole’s wife. They walled her into the foundation and so t
