Voyager tourism

Targoviste The first documentary attestation of the formal capital city is from 1396 left by the German crusader Johann Schiltberger. The first official document was written on paper by Mircea the Older (1386-1418) addressed to Tismana Monastery. Vlad Tepes was enthroned here in 1456. In 1499 the voivode Radu the Great rebuilt Saint Nicolae on Hill church, today known as Dealu Monastery. The church was painted in 1514 during the reign of Neagoe Basarab. Matei Basarab (1632-1654) reinforced the walls of the city, repaired the old churches and built new ones. Until 1659 Târgoviste was the capital city of Wallachia and until 1714 was the crown residence. Tudor Vladimirescu, the leader of the revolution from 1821 was executed here in front of the Mitropoliei church. Gradually the town lost it’s importance as political and social center, today keeping only the charm of a formal medieval capital city. The capital of Wallachia was once very glorious. Not less than 33 rulers ascended to its throne. While he was restoring the Princely Court, adding new wings, the fierce voivode Vlad Tepes built also a high tower in order to keep an eye on the uninvited “guests” coming to his capital city Climbing the 122 steps of Chindiei Tower the visitors get familiar, thanks to a permanent exhibition, with the legend and historic facts of the one who became a hallucinating figure of this turn of the century, the famous Dracula.
Petru Cercel ordered the construction of the second Princely House and the Big Church of the Court. It was in Matei Basarab's days that the Princely Houses were repaired and the "Turkish bathing place" was built. In an extension of the main enclosure the St. Friday's Church and Princess Balasa's Houses are to be found, near the ruins of Dionisie Lupu's House. In 1517 the Metropolitan Seat moved to Targoviste, in the days of Neagoe Basarab who built the old Metropolitan Church, one of the biggest and most beautiful at that time. Under the reign of Matei Basarab a Princely Printing Press worked in Targoviste Metropolitan Church, issuing important works, such as "The Great Low or Improvement of the Low". In 1889 the demolition of the old church was decided and its replacement with the one that can be seen even now, work of the French architect Lecomte de Nouy. Rising above the town from the height of the first hillocks that go up to mountains Bucegi and Leaota, "Dealu Monastery" is the foundation of Radu cel Mare. This was the place where Macarie printing press works, the one that issued the first printings in Slavonic in Wallachia. This was the place where Emperor Rudolph the Third representatives came to sign the treaty of alliance with Mihai Viteazu, the first to unify the country, and this is the place where the head of the great Prince rests. The rich heritage of documents and objects, which reconstruct parts of the history of the town, is to be found in the Gallery of the National Complex "The Princely Court".