Turnu Monastery close to Cozia Monastery on the shore of Olt River, Valcea county, Romania

Turnu Monastery close to Cozia Monastery on the shore of Olt River, Valcea county, Romania

At the foot of Mount Cozia, near the river Olt, near the Caciulata resort (Calimanesti resort) and at 2 km away from Cozia Monastery founded by the Ruler Mircea the Elder / Mircea cel Batran, can be founded the Nunnery monastery, located at 600 m from the railway station with the same name. At the foot of the massive tails Turneanu peak, over time, there were many hermitages, cells dug into the rock by hermits living a true Christian life. Two of cells, carved in rock, are still today.

Name Monastery comes from a massive tower of rock called "Peak Theophilus" / "Piscul lui Teofil", built in the II entury by Roman legions in Arutela camp whose ruins can still be seen in Poiana Bivolari below the current hydro. At the beginning he was called "Hermitage after the turn" / "Schitul de dupa turn", then "Hermitage Turnu" / "Schitul Turnu" and finally, "Turnu Monastery".
The old church which is located immediately at the entrance, was built in 1676, on the place of the another one mode from wood, built by former bishop of Râmnic, Varlaam, Metropolitan of Romanian Country (Oltenia and Muntenia, two old historical province of Romania), died in 1702.
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