Unesco World Heritage

Romanian monastery treasures

The Maldavian prince Stephen the Great won his first big victory over the Turks more than 500 years ago, and he celebrated by having a monastery built and hiring artisans to cover it in beautiful murals. According to Peter Wortsman in Sunday’s New York Times travel section, Stephen kept erecting monasteries and filling them with … Read more

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