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2012 Curtea de Arges Monastery Church, 500 years - First Day Cover

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Issue Date: 12.10.2012
Designer: Mihai Vamasescu and Stan Pelteacu
Illustrator: -
Printer: -
Process: offset
Colours: 4 colours
Size: 48 x 33 mm, 132 x 91 mm
Values: 4.50L, 14.50L,

Religion

About Curtea de Arges Monastery Church, 500 years

Considered in 1654 as “one of the world’s wonders” by the Christian Arabian writer and traveller Paul of Aleppo, Curtea de Arges Monastery Church was built by the ruler Neagoe Basarab between 1512-1517, on the foundations of the Metropolitan Cathedral built by Vlad II Dracul, the father of Vlad Tepes, which was “demolished and unreinforced”.

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