Cabana Dejani - accommodation in Fagaras and nearby

Fagaras Fortress is the most imposing monument of the region, one of the largest and best preserved of the whole country and even Europe.

Feudal fortified complex in Fagaras, whose construction began in the late fourteenth century and continued by successive additions, until the middle of the eighteenth century, was preceded by a wooden fort, surrounded by a ditch and wave of land certified century archaeological twelfth century. This fort, evidence of a local political-military organization princely early in Fagaras, was destroyed in the mid XIIHea century, after a serious fire, as attested by the remains unearthed by archaeological excavations that have accompanied the restoration.

Situated in the Fagaras Mountains, just 21 km from Fagaras, Dejani monastery was in a clearing (the valley Radului), place of peace, stop the "garden of the Virgin".
It is not known exactly when and from whom the monastery was founded. Documents relating to it destroyed over time are very few. The existence of the sanctuary in the eighteenth century is attested by several inscriptions and notes made on the church books of Fagaras.
The monastery was a modest wooden building with stone foundation. Monks homes, small huts and huts of iemn is lost in the forest hiding. The place was isolated, were not roads, just a path in the mountains. General Buccow armies in June 1761 the church burned to the ground and destroyed the monastery buildings Dejani. With it gone documents, manuscripts, icons, religious objects, only some of the monastery treasures were saved by locals and taken to the parish church.

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