Tismana

Tismana is a town in Romanian Wallachia in Gorj county with approximately 8,500 inhabitants.

Particularly well known is the location in the Transylvanian Alps place by the Romanian Orthodox monastery Tismana. This is the oldest extant monastery in Wallachia.

A first monastery built at the place Prince Radu II ( 1377-1383 ). It should serve to counter the in nearby Hungary spreading Catholicism on the border of a spiritual bulwark.

Thanks to comprehensive donations the monastery had already shortly after ten villages in the immediate vicinity, another ten villages in present-day Serbia, ten Gypsy settlements, customs offices at Calafat, Balta Bistreţului and Valcan, the tithe of Kupfererzgruben of Bratilovo, as well as extensive agricultural land.

After the monastery fell again in the following centuries, was Prince Radu cel Mare ( Radu the Great, 1495-1508 ) to build a new monastery on the spot.

The place was built in the 15th/16th. Century around the monastery and is today an important center of the Romanian wood industry. Internationally known the place next to the monastery is also the artisan cooperative " Arta casnică ", whose arts and crafts are sold internationally.

2004 Tismana received the status of a city.

Pictures

View of the monastery Tismana

Wooden church in Pocruia

Wooden church in Gornoviţa