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It appears that the location was not chosed at random as the new construction was integrated into an existing tower.

The old tower was built to defend the entrance in the village. That’s why it had thick walls and narrow windows, of fortification. The archers could survey the area from here, without exposing themselves.

The gate was small, meaning that one couldn’t get in the courtyard riding a horse.

The nobiliary court belonged to Mara’s family who also owned the fortress from Malaiesti.

The entrance of the tower was above the ground level. And, getting to the door required climbing a timber ladder which was removed at nightfall or in times of danger. You can still notice the cracks in the wall where the small timber platform was attached in front of the door.

The accommodation rooms had windows of hand-made glass. The upper side of the windows was decorated with brick arches, pieces of which can still be seen.

Source: Tourist information board at the site.

Visiting

The access to the fortress can be done from DN 66, from Hateg to Petrosani, than at Ohaba de Sub Piatra village, take the left/right towards Nucsoara village. After 6 km you reach Salasu de Sus. This is also one of the entrances to the Retezat National Park.

There is no entrance schedule or fee.

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Hadambu Monastery was dated in the second half of the XVII-th century, in 1659. It is an old founding of a Greek boyar named Iani Hadambu. He recieved a few land properties from the voivode of that time, Gheorghe Ghica, among which there also was the property on which the monastery is situated. . . . → Read More: Hadambu Monastery]]> About

Hadambu Monastery was dated in the second half of the XVII-th century, in 1659. It is an old founding of a Greek boyar named Iani Hadambu. He recieved a few land properties from the voivode of that time, Gheorghe Ghica, among which there also was the property on which the monastery is situated. The boyar Iani Hadambu receives this property with the purpose to renew an old wooden church from the XV-th century dedicated to Saint Hierarch Nicholas.

The church and its walls are constructed of quarry stone having the form of a fortress, because of that hard times when Turks and Tartars were rushing at the monastery plundering them.

The votive stone written in stone on old Slavonic language is situated above the entrance door in the church. It says: “With Father’s will, Son’s help and Holy Spirit’s ending, Inami Hadambu renewed and found this monastery in the forest of Iasi on the Mare hill, and dedicated to the Theotokos in the days of Io Ghiorghe Ghica Voivode, in 7169 (1659), September the 8-th.”

In time here passed many generations of Greek monks. They lived here until Alexandru Ioan Cuza’s time, when it was emitted the law of the secularization of the monasteries fortunes (1859-1860). As a result of this law, the Greek monks were obliged to leave the monastery.

In these conditions the monastery remains abandoned until 1937, when the first Romanian monks arrive here, guided by the Hieromonk Iov Mazilu. They repaired the roof and the vault of the church and consolidated a part of the church walls with brick, which it can be seen today too.

Neither the Romanian monks lived here for too long because in 1960, as the result of a decree, are chased away from the monastery. Thus, the Hadambu Monastery remains abandoned again for another 30 years, until 1990 when the ensemble was reactivated with the blessing of His Eminence Daniel, Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bukovina.

Source: Tourist board at the site

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