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| General Description | Royal Church of St. Nicholas is one of the main tourist attractions in Curtea de Arges, the first major monument of religious architecture in the Romanian Country. Royal Court of Arges was built originally in the late thirteenth century, the Roman prince Seneslau. The forefront is narrow and domed, with a cupola in the centre; the nave is square, domed, of large proportions. The tower rises above the four pillars bearing the arches. At the beginning of the fourteenth century 14th, during the Romanian ruler Basarab I (1310-1352)the church, the royal palace on the south side of the tower and the enclosure wall were built. In the sixteenth century Romanian ruler Neagoe (1512-1521) built the royal house on the north side. The Palace and royal house, are representative types of traditional Romanian architecture. For a long time the church served as a burial place for rulers of Muntenia. One of them was voivode Vlaicu. In his tomb archeologists found a number of XIV century artifacts, among which the belt buckle from Arges. In 1992, when the princely court, Curtea de Arges, was being renovated a piece of paper was found which says that voivode Basarab, i.e. Basarab I ruling between 1310 and 1352, and the founder of the independent feudal state of Muntenia, died in 6860 (i.e. 1352) in Câmpulung. I Basarab was also buried in the church. |
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