# Monasteries — tourist attractions in Romania [Romania](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/attractions) › [Categories](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/categories) > Monasteries and hermitages, from painted princely foundations to pilgrimage sites. Monasteries are where Romanian medieval art has survived best: princely and boyar foundations from the 14th to the 18th century, with painted churches, fortress-like precincts, museums of icons and embroideries, and the tombs of voivodes. The most visited are the painted monasteries of Bukovina, built under Stephen the Great and Petru Rareș and listed by UNESCO; the Neamț area gathers the largest communities of monks and nuns in the country, Oltenia has the foundations of Constantin Brâncoveanu, and Transylvania the pilgrimage sites of Nicula and Prislop. Almost all are working monasteries: visitors are expected to dress modestly and keep quiet, and some offer a bed for the night in their guesthouse. Parish churches, cathedrals, wooden churches and fortified churches are listed under [Churches](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/churches). In [Bukovina](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/region/bucovina), [Voroneț Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-voronet), [Sucevița Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-sucevita) and [Putna Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-putna), with the tomb of Stephen the Great, can be seen in a single day. In [Moldavia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/region/moldova), [Neamț Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-neamt) and [Agapia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-agapia) lie a few kilometres apart. Oltenia offers [Horezu Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-horezu), founded by Constantin Brâncoveanu, and the Hațeg Country [Prislop Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/manastirea-prislop), with the grave of Arsenie Boca. ## Tourist attractions 79 attractions - [Voroneț Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/voronet-monastery) — Monasteries · Voroneț, SV · 10 lei · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20 The church founded by Stephen the Great in 1488, painted on the outside with the Last Judgment on a background of "Voroneț blue"; a UNESCO site near Gura Humorului. - [Horezu Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/horezu-monastery) — Monasteries · Horezu, VL · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20 Constantin Brâncoveanu's largest foundation, officially Hurezi Monastery: the model ensemble of the Brâncovenesc style, built in 1690–1693 and a UNESCO site since 1993. - [Putna Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/putna-monastery) — Monasteries · Putna, SV · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100 Stephen the Great's foundation of 1466–1469, the site of his tomb, with the Treasury Tower of 1481 and a museum holding one of the richest collections of medieval embroidery. - [Sucevița Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sucevita-monastery) — Monasteries · Sucevița, SV · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100 The Movilă family's fortified monastery, built in the 1580s among the hills of Bukovina, with a church painted almost entirely inside and out and the famous "Ladder of Virtues"; a UNESCO site. - [Humor Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/humor-monastery) — Monasteries · Mănăstirea Humorului, SV · ½ – 1 hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100 The church built in 1530 by chancellor Toader Bubuiog under Petru Rareș, painted outside in shades of red, with an open porch and Vasile Lupu's tower; a UNESCO site. - [Curtea de Argeș Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/curtea-de-arges-monastery) — Monasteries · Curtea de Argeș, AG · 1 – 1½ hours · Top 100 Neagoe Basarab's foundation of 1515–1517, with the twisted towers and stone lacework of the legend of Master Manole, and Romania's royal necropolis, from Carol I to Michael I. - [Moldovița Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/moldovita-monastery) — Monasteries · Vatra Moldoviței, SV · 1 – 1½ hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 100 Founded by Petru Rareș in 1532, with a church painted on the outside in shades of yellow and blue and the famous Siege of Constantinople fresco; a UNESCO site in Bukovina. - [Cozia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cozia-monastery) — Monasteries · Călimănești, VL · ½ – 1 hours · Top 100 Mircea the Elder's foundation on the banks of the Olt, consecrated in 1388: the Holy Trinity church, with stone-and-brick façades, a Brâncovenesc porch and the prince's tomb in the narthex. - [Snagov Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/snagov-monastery) — Monasteries · Snagov, IF · ½ – 1 hours A princely monastery on an island in Lake Snagov, with the exposed-brick church raised by Neagoe Basarab in 1521, paintings from 1563 and the grave that tradition attributes to Vlad the Impaler. - [Lainici Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lainici-monastery) — Monasteries · Bumbești-Jiu, GJ · Free · 45 min A monastery for monks right beside the DN66 in the Jiu Gorge: the painted old church of 1812–1817, the two-level new church and the relics of St Irodion. - [Sinaia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sinaia-monastery) — Monasteries · Sinaia, PH · ½ – 1 hours The monastery built by the sword-bearer Mihail Cantacuzino in 1690–1695 that gave the town its name: the old church with Pârvu Mutu's frescoes, the great church rebuilt for Carol I and a museum holding the Bucharest Bible. - [Cârța Cistercian Abbey](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/carta-cistercian-abbey) — Monasteries · Cârța, SB · ½ – 1 hours The ruins of the only surviving Cistercian abbey in Romania, built around 1200 in the Early Gothic style, with its choir now serving as an Evangelical church. - [Maria Radna Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/maria-radna-monastery) — Monasteries · Lipova, AR · ½ – 1 hours The largest Baroque pilgrimage church in western Romania, its 67-metre towers rising above the Mureș, with a miracle-working icon and corridors covered in votive paintings. - [St John the New Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/st-john-the-new-monastery) — Monasteries · Suceava, SV · UNESCO World Heritage The former metropolitan cathedral of Moldavia, built in 1514–1522 in the centre of Suceava and home to the relics of St John the New; its church of St George is a UNESCO site. - [Șumuleu Ciuc (Franciscan Monastery)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sumuleu-ciuc) — Monasteries · Miercurea Ciuc, HR · Free · ½ – 1 hours The Baroque Franciscan church of Șumuleu Ciuc (Csíksomlyó) holds a 16th-century statue of the Virgin Mary and is the goal of Romania's largest Catholic pilgrimage, at Pentecost. - [Brâncoveanu Monastery of Sâmbăta de Sus](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/brancoveanu-monastery-of-sambata-de-sus) — Monasteries · Sâmbăta de Sus, BV · 1 – 1½ hours Orthodox monastery founded by Constantin Brâncoveanu below the Făgăraș Mountains: the church rebuilt in 1926–1946 on its old foundations, an icon museum and a new Brâncovenesc-style precinct. - [Radu Vodă Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/radu-voda-monastery) — Monasteries · București · 30 min A 16th-century monastery on a hill in central Bucharest, with the brick church of the Holy Trinity modelled on Curtea de Argeș, a bell tower and the relics of Saint Nectarios. - [Văratec Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/varatec-monastery) — Monasteries · Agapia, NT · 1 – 1½ hours The largest convent in Romania, home to more than 400 nuns, founded in 1785 in a clearing at the foot of the mountains, where the poet Veronica Micle is also buried. - [Războieni Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/razboieni-monastery) — Monasteries · Războieni, NT · 30 min A small stone church built by Stephen the Great in 1496, twenty years after the Battle of Valea Albă, where the fallen Moldavian soldiers lie; today a convent. - [Sihăstria Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sihastria-monastery) — Monasteries · Vânători-Neamț, NT · 1 – 1½ hours A monastery of monks in the Neamț mountains, founded in 1655, home of the spiritual fathers Cleopa Ilie and Paisie Olaru, whose relics have been open for veneration since 2025. - [Stavnic Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/stavnic-monastery) — Monasteries · Schitu Stavnic, IS · 45 min A monks' monastery south of Iași, founded around 1727, with the ruins of the Vovidenia church bombed in the war and a new adobe church in use. - [Tismana Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/tismana-monastery) — Monasteries · Tismana, GJ · 1 – 1½ hours The oldest monastery in Wallachia, founded by St Nicodemus in the 14th century on a rocky spur next to a waterfall; Romania's National Bank gold was hidden here from 1944 to 1947. - [Viforâta Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/viforata-monastery) — Monasteries · Aninoasa, DB · 45 min A convent first recorded in 1530, founded by Vlad the Drowned, a few kilometres from Târgoviște: a church with a porch painted with scenes from the Apocalypse, Brâncoveanu votive portraits and cells with wooden verandas. - [Agapia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/agapia-monastery) — Monasteries · Agapia, NT · 1 – 1½ hours One of the largest convents in the country, built in 1641–1643 in the Agapia valley, with a church whose interior was painted by the young Nicolae Grigorescu in 1858–1861. - [Bârsana Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/barsana-monastery) — Monasteries · Bârsana, MM · ½ – 1 hours A convent in the Iza Valley, built from 1993 onwards of oak and river stone in the style of the Maramureș wooden churches: a precinct with a ~57 m church, bell tower, abbess's house and gardens. - [Cernica Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cernica-monastery) — Monasteries · Cernica, IF · 1 – 1½ hours A monastery for monks built on two islands in Lake Cernica, on the edge of Bucharest: the lavra of St Calinic, with two large churches, a museum and the graves of figures from Romanian culture. - [Ciolanu Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ciolanu-monastery) — Monasteries · Tisău, BZ · 45 min A monastery of monks in the Nișcov valley, first documented in 1600, with a large church built in 1823–1828 and an older one from the 16th century; the Măgura Sculpture Camp lies beside it. - [Crasna Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/crasna-monastery) — Monasteries · Crasna, GJ · Free · 40 min A monastery for monks at the foot of the Parâng Mountains, with the stone church of 1636 built by the boyar Dumitru Filișanu, with an octagonal tower, a brick band and a gilded iconostasis showing Matei Basarab. - [Dealu Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dealu-monastery) — Monasteries · Aninoasa, DB · ½ – 1 hours Radu the Great's foundation on the hill north of Târgoviște, built in 1499–1501: a church clad in dressed stone and a princely necropolis where the head of Michael the Brave is kept. - [Dragomirna Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dragomirna-monastery) — Monasteries · Mitocu Dragomirnei, SV · 1 – 1¼ hours The foundation of Metropolitan Anastasie Crimca (1602–1609), 12 km from Suceava: an unusually tall and narrow stone church enclosed by fortress walls, with a museum of old manuscripts and embroideries. - [Golia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/golia-monastery) — Monasteries · Iași, IS · ½ – 1 hours A fortified monastery in the centre of Iași, with Vasile Lupu's church, unique in Moldavia for its classical facades and seven towers, and a tower almost 30 m high with views over the city. - [Neamț Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/neamt-monastery) — Monasteries · Vânători-Neamț, NT · 1 – 1½ hours The oldest and largest monastic settlement in Moldavia, recorded since 1407, with the Church of the Ascension built by Stephen the Great and consecrated in 1497. - [Nicula Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/nicula-monastery) — Monasteries · Nicula, CJ · ½ – 1 hours The hilltop monastery near Gherla that keeps the icon of the Virgin painted in 1681, which wept in 1699; home to the largest pilgrimage in Transylvania, on the Feast of the Dormition. - [Plumbuita Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plumbuita-monastery) — Monasteries · București · 45 min A 16th–17th-century monastery in Colentina, with a church rebuilt by Matei Basarab in 1647, a gatehouse bell tower and an arcaded princely house. - [Polovragi Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/polovragi-monastery) — Monasteries · Polovragi, GJ · 45 min A convent at the foot of Piatra Polovragilor, with a church built in the 1640s by the logothete Danciu Pârâianu, a porch and bell tower from the time of Brâncoveanu, and a carved wooden gate. - [Prislop Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/prislop-monastery) — Monasteries · Hațeg, HD · 1 – 1½ hours A convent in the Hațeg Country, with a stone church rebuilt in 1564 and the grave of St Arsenie of Prislop (Father Arsenie Boca), one of the largest pilgrimage sites in Romania. - [Probota Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/probota-monastery) — Monasteries · Probota, SV · UNESCO World Heritage Peter Rareș's 1530 foundation and his family's burial place, with the fresco-painted church of St Nicholas inside fortress-like walls; a UNESCO site near Dolhasca. - [Săpânța-Peri Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sapanta-peri-monastery) — Monasteries · Săpânța, MM · 45 min A convent in Săpânța, built from 1997 in memory of the old Peri Monastery across the Tisza, with an oak church ~75 m high, regarded as the tallest wooden church. - [Sfinții Voievozi Monastery, Slobozia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sfintii-voievozi-monastery-slobozia) — Monasteries · Slobozia, IL · Free · 30 min The oldest monastery in the Bărăgan, founded by the Grand Postelnic Ianache Caragea and rebuilt by Matei Basarab, with a 17th-century brick enclosure wall and a bell tower you enter through. - [Solca Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/solca-monastery) — Monasteries · Solca, SV · 45 min The Church of Saints Peter and Paul, founded by Ștefan Tomșa II in 1612–1622, one of the tallest in northern Moldavia, surrounded by enclosure walls with towers. - [St Andrew's Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/st-andrew-s-cave) — Monasteries · Ion Corvin, CT · ½ – 1 hours A small cave in the woods near Ion Corvin, fitted out as a church, where tradition says the Apostle Andrew lived; a monastery has grown up around it and draws pilgrims on 30 November. - [Strâmba Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/stramba-monastery) — Monasteries · Strâmba-Jiu, GJ · 30 min A convent in Strâmba-Jiu with the Holy Trinity church of the early 17th century, built on the site of a hermitage recorded in 1519, in a quiet courtyard beneath wooded hills. - [Trei Ierarhi Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/trei-ierarhi-monastery) — Monasteries · Iași, IS · 45 min Vasile Lupu's foundation of 1639 in the centre of Iași, its facades covered in lace-like stone carving; the tombs of Cuza and Cantemir are here. - [Zamca Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/zamca-monastery) — Monasteries · Suceava, SV · 30 min A fortified Armenian complex of the 17th century on the western edge of Suceava: stone walls, the church of St Auxentius, a 26-metre bell tower and a chapel above the gate. - [Antim Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/antim-monastery) — Monasteries · București · Free · 30 min A monastery in the centre of Bucharest, founded in 1713–1715 by Saint Anthim the Iberian, with a trefoil-plan church, carved stone window frames and a courtyard with a bell tower and abbots' houses. - [Arnota Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/arnota-monastery) — Monasteries · Costești, VL · 45 min Matei Basarab's foundation of 1633–1634, on a limestone spur above Bistrița Monastery: a small princely church, painted in 1644, which holds the prince's tomb. - [Bat Cave at Bistrița (Vâlcea)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bat-cave-at-bistrita) — Monasteries · Costești, VL · ½ – 1 hours The cave of St Gregory Decapolites, in the Bistrița Gorges near Bistrița Monastery, with two churches built inside: Ovidenia (15th c.) and the Holy Archangels (1633); it shelters bats. - [Bistrița Monastery (Vâlcea)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bistrita-monastery) — Monasteries · Costești, VL · ½ – 1 hours A late 15th-century foundation of the Craiovești boyars at the entrance to the Bistrița Gorges: it keeps the relics of St Gregory the Decapolite and the little infirmary church of 1520–1521. - [Bogdana Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/bogdana-monastery) — Monasteries · Rădăuți, SV · 45 min In the centre of Rădăuți, the Church of St Nicholas, founded by Bogdan I around 1360, is the oldest surviving stone church in Moldavia and the resting place of the first Moldavian princes. - [Brâncoveni Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/brancoveni-monastery) — Monasteries · Brâncoveni, OT · ½ – 1 hours A convent in Olt, in the village that Matei Basarab and Constantin Brâncoveanu came from: defensive wall and bell tower of 1634–1640, a Brâncovenesc great church of 1699, and a museum with a lapidary. - [Căluiu Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/caluiu-monastery) — Monasteries · Călui, OT · 45 min A sixteenth-century foundation of the Buzești boyars, tucked into a valley in Olt County: a church with the votive painting of Michael the Brave, the Buzești tombs and a brick enclosure wall. - [Cașin Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/casin-monastery) — Monasteries · Mănăstirea Cașin, BC · 45 min A foundation of Prince Gheorghe Ștefan from 1655–1657: a dressed-stone church inside a walled enclosure with towers, near Onești; today a parish church. - [Celic-Dere Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/celic-dere-monastery) — Monasteries · Frecăței, TL · 45 min A convent in the Tulcea hills, with a white church built in 1901–1932 reached by a monumental staircase, rose gardens and a wooden windmill listed as a historic monument. - [Cetățuia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cetatuia-monastery) — Monasteries · Iași, IS · 45 min A fortified monastery on a hill in the south of Iași, built by Gheorghe Duca in 1669–1672, with a church modelled on the Three Hierarchs, enclosure walls and a bell tower at the entrance. - [Cocoș Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cocos-monastery) — Monasteries · Niculițel, TL · 45 min A monastery for monks hidden in a forest clearing in northern Dobruja, with a three-domed church, a 30 m bell tower and cells with timber balconies; it keeps the relics of the Niculițel martyrs. - [Comana Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/comana-monastery) — Monasteries · Comana, GR · 45 min A fortified lowland monastery founded by Vlad the Impaler in 1461 and rebuilt by Radu Șerban in 1588, with thick walls, a Brâncoveanu-style loggia and the church of St Nicholas, on the edge of the Comana marsh. - [Coșula Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cosula-monastery) — Monasteries · Coșula, BT · 45 min A monastery from 1535 founded by Grand Treasurer Mateiaș, with the trefoil-plan Church of St Nicholas, an 18th-century bell tower and an abbot's house turned into a museum. - [Dintr-un Lemn Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/dintr-un-lemn-monastery) — Monasteries · Frâncești, VL · ½ – 1 hours A convent in Vâlcea named after the legend of a church carved from a single oak: the little wooden church in the cemetery and Matei Basarab's stone church, with its icon of the Mother of God. - [Frăsinei Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/frasinei-monastery) — Monasteries · Muereasca, VL · ½ – 1 hours A monastery for monks founded by St Calinic of Cernica in 1860–1863 and run according to the rule of Mount Athos: no meat, services until dawn and no entry for women. - [Galata Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/galata-monastery) — Monasteries · Iași, IS · 45 min A convent on Galata Hill in Iași, founded by Petru Șchiopul in the 1580s, with a stone-and-brick church, the first in Moldavia with two towers, and a walled enclosure with a fortress-like bell tower. - [Mraconia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/mraconia-monastery) — Monasteries · Dubova, MH · 30 min A monastery perched on a headland right above the Danube, in the Danube Gorges, on the site of the old monastery demolished in 1967 for the Iron Gates hydroelectric dam. - [Negoiești Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/negoiesti-monastery) — Monasteries · Negoești, CL · 45 min A foundation of 1648–1649 by Matei Basarab and Lady Elina on the bank of the Argeș: a three-towered church with 19th-century frescoes, restored with EU funds and reconsecrated in 2016. - [Negru Vodă Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/negru-voda-monastery) — Monasteries · Câmpulung, AG · 45 min The ensemble on the site of the old princely court of Câmpulung, with the 1647 bell tower, the 1364 tombstone of Prince Nicolae Alexandru and Matei Basarab's Princely House. - [Onufrie's Cave (Peștera lui Onufrie)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/onufrie-s-cave) — Monasteries · Vorona, BT · 1 – 1½ hours A sandstone shelter in the Vorona forests where St Onufrie lived as a hermit from 1764 to 1789; a pilgrimage site ~1.5 km from Sihăstria Voronei Monastery. - [Pasărea Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pasarea-monastery) — Monasteries · Brănești, IF · ½ – 1 hours A convent founded in 1813 near Bucharest, with a great church built by St Calinic of Cernica, nuns' houses with verandas, a museum collection and a cemetery with artists' graves. - [Pătrăuți Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/patrauti-monastery) — Monasteries · Pătrăuți, SV · UNESCO World Heritage The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, built by Stephen the Great in 1487: his oldest surviving foundation, with the "Cavalcade of the Holy Cross" fresco; a UNESCO site near Suceava. - [Plătărești Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/plataresti-monastery) — Monasteries · Plătărești, CL · 45 min A foundation of Prince Matei Basarab, 20 km from Bucharest: a brick church built in 1642–1646, with original frescoes from 1649 in the narthex, preserved only here and at Arnota. - [Popăuți Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/popauti-monastery) — Monasteries · Botoșani, BT · 30 min The Church of St Nicholas, built by Stephen the Great in 1496: the oldest church in Botoșani, of bare red brick, with a stone bell tower from the same period. - [Râmeț Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ramet-monastery) — Monasteries · Râmeț, AB · ½ – 1 hours A convent at the mouth of the Râmeț Gorge in the Trascău Mountains, with an old stone church whose murals go back to around 1300, and a new church dating from 1992. - [Râșca Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rasca-monastery) — Monasteries · Râșca, SV · 45 min Petru Rareș's 1542 foundation, with the church of St Nicholas painted on the outside too and enclosed by stone walls with a tower; restored with PNRR funds and handed over in May 2026. - [Rohia Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/rohia-monastery) — Monasteries · Rohia, MM · 1 – 1½ hours The Monastery of St Anne in the Lăpuș Land, hidden in a beech and oak forest, where the monk and writer Nicolae Steinhardt lived and is buried, with a library of over 40,000 volumes. - [Saon Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/saon-monastery) — Monasteries · Niculițel, TL · 45 min A convent by Lake Saon with a white three-towered church built from 1909 and the old church of 1881, in the commune of Niculițel; a listed historic monument. - [Secu Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/secu-monastery) — Monasteries · Vânători-Neamț, NT · ½ – 1 hours A fortress-like monastery in the Neamț mountains, built in 1602 by the high steward Nestor Ureche, with walls up to 3 m thick, a church with its original inscription and a treasury of old church objects. - [Sihla Monastery and the Cave of St Theodora](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sihla-monastery-and-the-cave-of-st-theodora) — Monasteries · Agapia, NT · 1 – 1½ hours A hermitage of monks hidden among the crags of the Neamț mountains, with a wooden church of 1813 and the cave where St Theodora of Sihla lived as a recluse. - [Slatina Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/slatina-monastery) — Monasteries · Slatina, SV · ½ – 1 hours A fortified monastery raised by Alexandru Lăpușneanu in the 1550s, with a perimeter wall and towers, a princely necropolis of Moldavia and today a convent of nuns. - [St John Cassian's Cave](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/st-john-cassian-s-cave) — Caves · Casian, CT · ½ – 1 hours A cave in the limestone face of Casian Hill above the Casimcea valley in Dobruja, reached by a metal staircase; the nearby monastery uses it as a place of prayer. - [Stavropoleos Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/stavropoleos-monastery) — Monasteries · București · Free · 30 min A small convent in the Old Town with a Brâncoveanu-style church from 1724, façades painted with saints in medallions, an arcaded courtyard and a lapidary of stones from vanished Bucharest churches. - [Teodoreni Monastery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/teodoreni-monastery) — Monasteries · Suceava, SV · 45 min A convent in Suceava's Burdujeni district, founded in 1597 by the postelnic Teodor Movilă: a trefoil church with blind arcading, a gatehouse bell tower and an enclosure wall. - [Vovidenia Skete and Mihail Sadoveanu Memorial House](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vovidenia-skete-and-mihail-sadoveanu-memorial-house) — Monasteries · Vânători-Neamț, NT · ½ – 1 hours A monks' skete hidden among fir trees near Neamț Monastery, with a church of 1849–1857 painted on the outside too and the house of Metropolitan Visarion Puiu, where Mihail Sadoveanu lived, now a memorial museum. --- Full page: https://peplaiuri.ro/en/monasteries Other languages: Română: https://peplaiuri.ro/manastiri.md · Deutsch: https://peplaiuri.ro/de/kloester.md · Italiano: https://peplaiuri.ro/it/monasteri.md · Français: https://peplaiuri.ro/fr/monasteres.md · Español: https://peplaiuri.ro/es/monasterios.md · Magyar: https://peplaiuri.ro/hu/kolostorok.md Source: Pe Plaiuri (https://peplaiuri.ro/en) — Guide to tourist attractions in Romania