Probota Monastery

It is the first settlement of the ruler Petru Rares, built in 1530 on the place of a small wooden church (1398) the other one is made of stone (around 1440). Its traces can still be seen nearby. “Probota” means brotherhood of the church’s ministrants.

A harmonious monumental edifice, with a tower above the nave, a hallway closed by large gothic windows with borders of carved stone, polygonal apses marked by headlong arcades and little niches, a prolonged base with a surrounding bench, Probota Monastery is one of the most important accomplishments of Romanian architecture, for the 16th century.

The defence walls of 6 meters high, the square towers and the Lordly house complete the monastic assembly with elements of civil Moldavian architecture which are among the fewest left from the 16th century.