PRINCELY CHURCH TARGOVISTE ROMANIA
PRINCELY COURT and CHINDIA TOWER TARGOVISTE ROMANIA
Princely - Old Court Church (Biserica Curtea Veche) Bucharest, Romania Outside and Inside
Princely - Old Court Church seen from outside and inside.
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Târgoviște Old Princely Court - the real residence of Vlad the Impaler, Dracula in Romania
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If you visit Romania in search of Dracula and the places that are related to this legend, you need to look for the life of Vlad the Impaler. He was a cruel ruler of Wallachia that inspired Bram Stocker to create the character of Count Dracula. Thus, one of the places you need to see while in Romania is Târgoviște Princely Court where Vlad the Impaler, Dracula used to live and rule during medieval times for 7 years long.
The Royal Court (Curtea Domnească) had been constantly extended, being surrounded by stone walls and a moat. Now it is in ruins with only parts of the walls still intact. Next to the palace you can find Chindiei watch tower (now a symbol of the city) and a church which, in contrast with the rest of the residence, is still completely intact. Climb up in the tower and enjoy the panoramic view over the ruins of Târgoviște Court and the whole city.
If you want to visit the real places connected to Vlad the Impaler, Dracula, The Old Court of Târgoviște is definitely a place where you should go. You can reach the city by train or regular buses from Bucharest, or you can take small group day tours from Bucharest that include the visit here.
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HEY Romania - City of Targoviste English Version HD
This is a video who wants to present the city of Targoviste in a warm and a touristic light.
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Târgovişte, Romania
1001 reasons to visit my Country, Romania!
From Bucharest, Maramureş, going through Prahova Valley, Delta and going up to the Black Sea, we can find incredibly beautiful Churches, Monasteries, Chatedrals and landscapes, mountains watching the waters, plains, wealth land and people, people whose soul is great and generous. The soul of this nation need to be known; soul who wrote, write and will write history, sang, sing, and will sing ballads and doine, soul wept, laughed, was mocked and suffered and was glad. The beauty of this country was described in literature by Eminescu, Alecsandri, IH Radulescu, Fănuş Neagu and others either in prose or in poetry.
Old Princely Court and Church Bucharest Old City Ties
The Court and Church are located on the oldest known street of the historical center - the French Street - across the street from the impressive Manuc Inn.
Curtea Veche (the Old Princely Court), built as a place or residence during the rule of Vlad III Dracula in 1459...
Targoviste Princely Court of Vlad Dracula
In 2009 they were renovating this court and so now in 2012 when we returned, it was almost complete. There were some guides here talking with a group who stated his name was Vlad Tepes. The guide stated he knew his facts and I stated I had seen the documents themselves in which Vlad Tepes was not called this name in his lifetime. It was not until 1550 that the first document appeared with this name of Vlad Tepes. But in documents from 1476 in the last months of his life, he signed his name Vladislaus Dracula.
Chindia Tower - Turnul Chindiei - Built by Vlad the Impaler known as Dracula. Târgoviște, România.
The Chindia Tower is a fortification in the Curtea Domnească monuments in Targoviste, Romania. It was built in the 15th century, during Vlad Tepes’s reign, over the porch of the Chapel-Church raised by Mircea cel Batran.
It initially had a military purpose, but during history it has been used as a guard point, a fire spotter and for storing and protecting the state treasury.
The tower is 27 m tall and it is constituted of a truncated pyramid shaped base of stone, from which rises a cylindrical structure made of bricks whose diameter measures 9 m. Known as the city’s symbol, the Chindia Tower is the most important tourist attraction in Targoviste.
There are two theories on the origin of the name: the first one argues that the area was the site of many large feasts and festivals, known in Romania as chindia. The second theory was that the name originates from the word chindia, an archaism which means “sunset”. Neither of this hypotheses is fully recognized.
The construction has 3 floors, from which the last two are labeled on the outside by broken arch openings and by balconies supported by stone consoles. Inside the tower, there is an inner spiral shaped staircase situated on the vertical axis of the building.
The interior is divided into three levels separated by wooden floors and the climbing is made on a spiral staircase (122 steps).
Music credit: Village Consort by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Link to music: #vladtepes #dracula #turnulchindieitargoviste
TARGOVISTE 1
Târgoviște este un municipiu, reședința de județ și cel mai mare oraș al județului Dâmbovița, Muntenia, România. Are o populație de aproximativ 89.000 de locuitori. Reședință domnească și capitală între 1396 și 1714, orașul a deținut mai bine de trei secole statutul de cel mai important centru economic, politico-militar și cultural-artistic al Țării Românești.
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Târgoviște est le chef-lieu du județ de Dâmbovița, Roumanie, sur la rive droite de la Ialomița. Elle comptait 89 000 habitants en 2002
Bien que Johannes Schiltberger mentionne le lieu en 1396 dans ses Souvenirs de voyage, Târgoviște ne devient résidence princière et capitale de la principauté de Valachie, probablement que sous Mircea l'Ancien (Mircea cel Bătrân), lors de la construction de la cour royale (Curtea Domnească). La ville sera, de 1418 à 1659, la dernière capitale de la Valachie avant Bucarest.
Vlad III l'Empaleur (Vlad Țepeș) y bâtit la tour de Chindia, qui est aujourd'hui le symbole de la ville. Michel Ier le Brave (Mihai Viteazul) y défait les Ottomans dans la décisive bataille de Târgoviște en 1597. Quand Constantin Brancovan déplace en 1659 sa capitale à Bucarest, Târgoviște perd de son importance tant économique que démographique.
Târgoviște est aussi l'endroit où Nicolae Ceaușescu et sa femme Elena ont été jugés et exécutés en décembre 1989 lors de la révolution roumaine
Turnul Chindiei, Târgoviște, România. Chindia Tower, Vlad III (Known as The Impaler - Dracula).
The Chindia Tower is a fortification in the Curtea Domnească monuments in Targoviste, Romania. It was built in the 15th century, during Vlad Tepes’s reign, over the porch of the Chapel-Church raised by Mircea cel Batran.
It initially had a military purpose, but during history it has been used as a guard point, a fire spotter and for storing and protecting the state treasury.
The tower is 27 m tall and it is constituted of a truncated pyramid shaped base of stone, from which rises a cylindrical structure made of bricks whose diameter measures 9 m. Known as the city’s symbol, the Chindia Tower is the most important tourist attraction in Targoviste.
There are two theories on the origin of the name: the first one argues that the area was the site of many large feasts and festivals, known in Romania as chindia. The second theory was that the name originates from the word chindia, an archaism which means “sunset”. Neither of this hypotheses is fully recognized.
The construction has 3 floors, from which the last two are labeled on the outside by broken arch openings and by balconies supported by stone consoles. Inside the tower, there is an inner spiral shaped staircase situated on the vertical axis of the building.
The interior is divided into three levels separated by wooden floors and the climbing is made on a spiral staircase (122 steps).
Music credit: Village Consort by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Link to music: #vladtepes #dracula #turnulchindieitargoviste
Cultural Europe: Târgoviște - Princely Court of Wallachia
In this video in our series #CulturalEurope we visit the city of Târgoviște, which used to be the capital of Wallachia, one of the principalities that merged to form modern day Romania. We look at the local architecture and language, the rulers of Wallachia, their princely court and, not to forget, the centuries-long struggle against the Islamic invasion of Europe. #Romania #Wallachia #Dracula #GatesOfEurope
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Curtea de Argeș: St. Nicholas Princely Church
Curtea de Argeș: St. Nicholas Princely Church
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heritage, tourism
12 July 2018
Vlad Dracula Statue at Targoviste
This statue is across from Targoviste Princely court. We ventured out one night and took some night pics of this statue. IN a document of 1550's states the first time Vlad Tepes was used. From this time on, Vlad was named Vlad Tepes. He was never in his life called this name. Stefan Cel Mare even wrote to Brasov and used the name Draculea as Vlad's name. Bring back the name of Draculea... it was his name first before Bram Stoker's novel.
MITROPOLIA TARGOVISTE ROMANIA
Mihnea Cel Rau, oldest son of Vlad Dracula buried at the Gothic Evangelical Church in SIbiu
Mihnea Cel Rau was buried here in the front of the Gothis Evangelical church here is Sibiu. Unfortunately this place was also under construction. The woman inside told us Mihnea's headstone has a cross and a moon on it. Mihnea was stabbed by a boyar and died of his wounds on these very steps.
Live from Chindia Tower
Târgovişte, Dâmboviţa county, România
First attested in 1396, in the Travel Accounts of Johannes Schiltberger, it became the capital of the Wallachian voivodship, probably during the reign of Mircea cel Bătrân, when the Royal Court (Curtea Domnească) was built. Vlad III Dracula later added the Chindia Tower, now a symbol of the city.
In 1597 the Hajduks of Mihai Viteazul and Starina Novak fought and won a decisive battle against the Ottoman Empire in Târgovişte.
After Constantin Brâncoveanu moved the capital to Bucharest, Târgovişte lost its importance, decaying economically as its population decreased.
Târgovişte was the site of the trial and execution of Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena in December 1989. Interestingly, there are towns with the same name (albeit with different spellings as they are written in our days in the Cyrillic alphabet) in both Bulgaria and Serbia. The Romanian and Bulgarian towns are twinned. The name is of Slavic origin, from the root -trg- or -tǎrg- (trade) and the placename suffix -ište, and means marketplace.
Located in the north-west side of the Royal Court and dominating the entire complex of monuments from here, the Chindia tower became the town of Targoviste's emblem. Of 27 m tall, it is constituted of a truncated pyramid shaped base of stone, from which rises a cylindrical strucure made of bricks whose diameter measures 9 m.
The construction has 3 floors, from which the last two are labelled on the outside by broken arch openings and by balconies supported by stone consoles. The access to the upside of the tower can be made through an inner spiral shaped staircase situated on the vertical axis of the building.
The Chindia tower was built in the second half of the 15th century, during Vlad Tepes's reign, over the porch of the Chapel-Church raised by Mircea cel Batran. Initially the tower was composed of two floors and the access was made through a turn bridge from the first level directly into the next house. The transformations made to this building detains us from establishing the exact original shape, owing its present aspect to the ruler Gheorghe Bibescu who arranged its rehabilitation in the year 1847.
Mănăstirea Dealu - Dealu Monastery - (Târgoviște - România) - 20_04_2019
Mănăstirea Dealu este o mănăstire de maici situată pe un deal din apropierea orașului Târgoviște. Drumul principal de acces este, pe ultimii 2 km până la mănăstire, o pantă cu înclinație mare ce șerpuiește până în vârful dealului.
Printre monumentele de seamă ale patriei noastre, la loc de cinste se află şi biserica Mănăstirii Dealu – împreună cu întregul ansamblu arhitectural restaurat cu mai bine de cincizeci de ani în urmă. Ea îmbogăţeşte patrimoniul cultural românesc, numărându-se printre cele mai vechi ctitorii domneşti, suferind puţine modificări de-a lungul timpului, deşi nu a fost cruţată de vremurile vitrege ce au afectat Ţara Românească.
Dealu Monastery is a monastery of nuns located on a hill near Targoviste. The main access road is, for the last 2 km to the monastery, a slope with a large incline that winds up to the top of the hill.
Among the most remarkable monuments of our homeland, there is also the Dealu Monastery church - along with the whole architectural ensemble restored more than fifty years ago. It enriches the Romanian cultural heritage, being one of the oldest princely builders, suffering little changes over time, although it was not spared by the great times that affected Wallachia.
Dracula's Fortress, Bucharest
Let's explore the Old Princely Court aka Dracula's Fortress in Bucharest.
Statue of Vladislaus Dracula in Targoviste Park
It is not understood why so many call Vlad Dracula Vlad Tepes. Tepes was a nickname just as Mihail Viteazul and Radu Prsnaglava. But the name Tepes was first introduced in a document of 1550. VLad was never known as Vlad Tepes in his life. THe first mention of this TYPE of name was used by the Turks who called him Kazicula Bei. Then, this name was later translated to Vlad the impaler or Vlad Tepes. But, he was never called this name in his lifetime. Documents in the Sibiu and Brasov as well as Buchurest Archives state Vlad Dracula called himself Vladislaus Dracula on the last documents he wrote in 1476. Also in Moldavian Archives, Stefan Cel Mare called VLad, the prince Draculea. Tepes was not a name anyone referred to him and it only surprises me more that most statues list him as Vlad Tepes. This was taken at Targoviste park located behind the CHindia and Princely court. There are over 32 statues of past rulers in this park. It is very beautiful.