DAMBOVITA County

Reinforced by the efforts of the professors and culture people Ion Gavrila and Mihai Oproiu in a house built in rustic style, with a surface of 550 sqm, the Ion Luca Caragiale Memorial House gives a joke to the life of the writer.

The museum exhibits documentary testimonies, princeps, photographs, period furniture, personal items and posters of his plays, played on major world scenes: New York, London, Rome, Milan, Tokyo, Paris.

Starting with 2007, the Ion Luca Caragiale Memorial House was transferred from the public domain of the state and the administration of the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs in the public domain of Dambovita County and the administration of the Dambovita County Council.

The building will be part of the Royal National Museum Complex in Targoviste.

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The thick concrete bunkers were built by specialists brought from Germany. It is said that such casemates are now found in France and the Netherlands. The German casemates at Moreni had firing compartments, weapons stowage, bedrooms, kitchens, and even tunnels between shooting locations.

Half a century later, the bunkers are still there, and this time only the wind keeps them company. The wind and sometimes the children, who play in the old massive reinforced concrete constructions.

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The Legionary Cross of Moreni, as known by the elders, is just one of the monuments. We find it at Moreni, somewhere between Ploieşti and Targoviste, at the top of the hill. It was to be built by the legionnaires of the locality, shortly before the Second World War, in 1936. Made of reinforced concrete with massive iron pipes, the cross has a height of over 3 meters. It survived the war, communism, but it was damaged after the 1989 Revolution, more precisely, in 1999.

Blessed by God and endowed with the most fruitful and beautiful lands of those in Subcarpathian Muntenia, Dambovita County is crossed along the longitudinal axis of the two waters that marked its existence (Ialomita and Dambovita), to the north is guarded by the peaks the seas of the Bucegi and Leota mountains, and in the south it is clear of the plain plains to the meadows of Arges, Dambovita, Ilfov and Colentina.

In these places of ancient human settlements with traces of habitation still from the primitive commune, with the specific archaeological reserves and treasures on the territory of the country and with the voivode residence which glorified the 33 rulers of the Romanian country, they speak not only the confessions of the material life of the ancestors but also those that bring us back to the richness of spiritual life, their unremitting preoccupation for faith and determination. More than any other place in the plain people have built their villages as a hardened place with a Schit in its center, forming a social, economic, spiritual religious core.

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Very near Targoviste, astery Viforata, another jewel of ecclesiastical art of the Romanian country, which along with other monasteries, and Dealu Monastery, Monastery Stelea Monastery Nucet, etc. complete the ecclesiastical cultural heritage of these places full of history.

These monuments of religious art representative of the Archdiocese of Targoviste, some of them already restored, and other under restoration, it is a great testament to the richness of the spiritual life and culture of these lands full of history, culture, civilization and living in the true spirit of orthodoxy.

St. Nicholas-Geartoglu Church in Târgovişte, located across the road from the Stelea Monastery, through the polygonal form inside and outside and by covering three segments of umbrella vaults of the altar apse, as well as by the nine countesses that adhere to the façades, reveals late Gothic influences . Built in the second half of the fifteenth century, the site was seldom signaled by historians, who dated him during the reign of Matei Basarab.

During the reign of Constantin Brâncoveanu (1688-1714), Pascalie the Târgoviste knight rebuilds the church, and Pascalie's son, taught by Andronache, worshiped the Horezu monastery. After a fire in 1712, the church remains ruined and repaired after 1777 by Gheorghe Geanolu, who bought the houses around the church.

In 1821, Alexandru Ipsilanti's eterist headquarters was established in Geanolu's homes, and Tudor Vladimirescu himself was imprisoned in Nicolae's church before he was taken to Metropolia and killed. In the same year, the church was robbed and partly destroyed by the Ottoman army's reprisals.

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The Museum of Human Evolution and Technology in Paleolithic is the first of its kind in Romania and Central and South-Eastern Europe. It is centered on the most important discoveries made in the Upper and Middle Paleolithic in Romania.

The museum features artifacts that are definitely part of the universal archaeological heritage, as are the oldest testimonies in the world on the Neanderthal man symbolism, represented by the ocher preparation vessels and a 50,000-year-old ocher painter, discovered in the Cioarei-Borosteni cave (Gorj County), the only small shell snail shell in Europe, about 29,000 years old, the oldest blowing instrument in Romania, a grave whistle for over 20000 years, many animal pendants and gravestone pendants, some even more than 25,000 years old, etc., all of which are found in Piatra Neamt-Poiana Ciresului (Neamt County) and Cioarei-Borosteni cave. Besides, the museum concentrates over 3/4 of all the objects of art and beauty discovered in Romania, more than 10,000 years old.

one of the largest caves in a museum in Romania is reconstituted in the museum, and the only one to find Neanderthal people achieved by observing all the morphology requirements, surprised in the most characteristic concerns, such as carving or coloring , a Homo Sapiens of the Upper Paleolithic, in a natural hunting hypostasis, along with a grave tortoise.

Exposure of the archaeological material is very modern, using modern ways of presenting the information, such as the plasmas on which the reconstruction of the technological processes underlying the realization of the stone and bone tools and weapons, in periods much higher than the age of 10,000 years, all artifacts being embedded in a natural environment.

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The museum was inaugurated on April 12, 1970 and, as the name says, is trying to keep alive in the memory of visitors the place where artist Gheorghe Petrascu (December 2, 1872, Tecuci - May 1, 1949, Bucharest) chose by building of the house with a spacious workshop, to work reluctantly and undisturbed by the noise of the big cities. The quiet and patriarchal city, situated near Bucharest, with a picturesque and varied landscape, and with many monuments and prints of glorious history, helped the modest artist to link his creation and life to Targoviste.

Representative artist in the Romanian plastic art and the first artist of the Romanian Academy, influenced during Grigorescu's new artistic beginnings regarding the presentation of the subjects, Gheorghe Petrascu will work in Targoviste in 1924 for nearly 20 years, after the narrative of the Nicoresti workshop and after the numerous trips, from which he had a series of impressions that fixed in the richly colored works the places that impressed him.

    The permanent exhibition has a strong memorial character trying, within the bounds of the patrimony, to recreate something from the atmosphere of the workshop with a wide saw to the north and view to the garden and the walls of the works. Here, the art collection includes landscapes from its various travels in the country (Siret, Dobrogea, Nicoresti, Agapia etc) and abroad: Egypt (1906), Italy, Spain, Balchik. The artist knew the surroundings quite well when he decided in the spring of 1922 to build his workshop in Targoviste because he had painted in Viforata in 1914. in 1926 he opened a personal exhibition at the "Art of the Arts" in Bucharest where he presents numerous paintings, drawings and watercolors, showing landscapes from his travels abroad and from Viforata, Aninoasa and Targoviste.

      In the exhibition, some early works can be admired and studied, such as "Reading Assuan", but also landscapes in which Grigorescian influences are felt. There are also a series of works illustrating, in his style and the specific chromatic range, his favorite flowers - the carriages - discovered at a German Gardon florist on Mihai Bravu Street, flowers that he had filled in at one time and the garden from the face of the house. From his travels through the country and abroad, he has immortalized places and landscapes such as -Casa at Vitré-, -Paisaj marin- (Venice), -Thousse at Chioggia- from the maturity period when the thick paste and the black outline already characterized him.

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