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NORTH DOBROGEAN MONASTEIRES
- All within about 25 km of the town of Tulcea, the North Dobrogean monasteries delight visitors with their stunning architecture. These are places dripping with history and filled with fascinating objects of religious art combining the Orthodox and Old Russian traditions.
- CELIC-DERE Monastery (“Steel Brook”, in the Turkish language) was established as a monastic settlement in 1841 by Romanian and Russian monks. The museum of the monastery contains various religious objects, a rich collection of old books, antique handmade carpets, and the oldest icon in Romania, brought from Mt. Athos in Greece.
- COCOS Monastery was established in 1833. Besides its impressive collections of fine and decorative art, archeological finds, and old coins, it shelters the bones of the oldest Christian martyrs discovered in Europe.
- THE NICULITEL CHURCH represents a paleo-Christian monument in Niculitel village. It was built in AD 370 during the reign of the emperor Valerius. In 1971, a violent rain washed away the earth concealing the church, revealing a unique monument, a crypt that houses the bones of four Christian martyrs (ZOTIKOS, ATTALOS, KAMASIS AND PHILLIPOS). Their four coffins can now be seen at Cocos Monastery.
- The Niculitel area offers also to the visitors a very delicious dry wine, which in combination with the local traditional cuisine provides an unforgettable experience.
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