Curtea de Arges Cathedral
This cathedral, located at the foot of the Fagaras Mountains, was built in the 15th century and is one of the most beautiful religious buildings of this period in Romania.
About this building
The Curtea de Arges Cathedral was founded in the 15th century by Prince Neagoe Basrab, one of the early princes of Wallachia. It was consecrated in 1517 and soon became one of the most important churches in Southern Romania. Its style inspired hundreds of religious buildings erected in the following centuries.
The building is oblong-shaped with one central dome and two smaller cupolas. Only one part of the original frescoes from the 16th century survived the restoration carried out between 1875 and 1886. These frescoes are exhibited at the National Museum of Art and History of Bucharest.
