Cârța Monastery

Sibiu County · Romania

Cârța Monastery, Romania
Photo: Otto Schemmel, CC BY-SA 2.0 de via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May to September
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The ruined Cistercian abbey of Cârța is the easternmost Gothic monastery of its order, its roofless nave standing on the Olt plain below the Făgăraș Mountains. Saxon settlers later reused the surviving choir as a parish church.

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