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| Postcards from Romania | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sinaia Monastery Church (1695) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| The town of Sinaia grew up around the monastery. Romania's first king, Carol I, build a castle in the forests nearby. Royal patronage endorsed the towns' upper crust credentials and encouraged some of Romania's wealthiest and most important personalities to build grand villas here too. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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