Cozia Monastery, erected by Mircea cel Bătrân in 1388 and boasting his tomb, is one of the most valuable monuments of national medieval art and architecture in Romania.
The appearance of the compound was modified under Neagoe Basarab (1517), Serban Cantacuzino and Constantin Brancoveanu (1707), who added a verandah, a new fountain, a chapel and a watch tower, adjoining to its architecture the 'brâncovenesc style'.
Wall facets decorations with original stone rosettes and frames display early Byzantine influence.
For great value stands the hospital church, 'bolnita' (1543), with original well preserved indoor frescoes, like the votive portrait of ruler Mircea cel Bătrân and his sons.
Cozia was painted between 1390-1931. Some of the primarily frescoes (1390) are still well preserved, and original frescoes in the hospital church ('bolniţa') erected in 1543 stand for great value.
Cozia boasts a museum of old art exhibits: old manuscripts and printings, embroideries and cult objects.
After Cozia was thus embellished and extended by these new founders, whose portraits are painted on the monastery walls, other repairs have been made in the following centuries or in the first decades of the 20th century under the patronage of the Board of Historical Monuments.
Cozia has nevertheless regained its former aspect, but only in the years of the popular power did it acquire its seven windows, each adorned with different sculptural and floral compositions which belong to the time of Mircea the Ancient.
Distance of the road which passes in front of the monastery, the ruins of “Old Cozia†look upon the visitor: centuries ago it was a hermitage in the middle of an imposing mountainous amphitheater; it was also described by Paul of Alep as a remarkable ecclesiastic monument, named “Hermitage of St. John of the Rockâ€.
CoziaMonastery, erected by Mircea cel Bătrân in 1388 and boasting his tomb, is one of the most valuable monuments of national medieval art and architecture in Romania.
The appearance of the compound was modified under Neagoe Basarab (1517), Şerban Cantacuzino and Constantin Brâncoveanu (1707), who added a veranda, a new fountain, a chapel and a watch tower, adding to its architecture the 'brâncovenesc style'.
Cozia features a museum of exhibiting old art: old manuscripts and prints, embroideries and objects of worship.
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