Built around 1810 by colonel Istrate Sălişteanucu to serve as residence during the farming works, guarding turret of the harvest and shelter during distress times. It represents the type of tall house with a dam along the entire facade with a wall plate and beautifully sculpted pillars, also having a series of fortresses, that is […]

The land on which the fortress was built is on a former property of the Cozia Monastary. According to historical tradition, it seems that it was built in 1800 by Tudor Vladimirescu after Cerneţi was burned down by the Turkish troops. After Tudor’s death, Vasile Strâmbeanu takes over the fortress and in 1838 it accues […]

As the population in Cerneți grew, there was a need for more worship houses. Thus in 1794 the Saint Nicholas church was completed, begun as per its inscription, along while back. This is the inscription: „This holy and godly church dedicated to Saint Nicholas and Saint Spiridon was built from the ground up by Radu […]

It was built in 1662 by king Grigore Ghica and later transformed between 1784 and 1794. A fortified church, with a massive and tall bell tower, thick walls and narrow shooting windows, allowing access from the inside. It is part of the former monastery complex, of which several ruins of the chapels and the inside […]

The bust of Tudor Vladimirescu, in the center of the town of Cerneți was built in 1914 and restored in May of 2014. The leader of the revolutionary movement from 1821, Tudor Vladimirescu, was born around 1780 in Vladimiri village (Gorj County), from a freeholder family. At 18 Tudor joined the pandours (irregular army force, […]

The Cerneți Village Museum was founded at the end of 2013, at the initiative of local teacher Florin Grigore Dudaș and of mayor of Șimian, Constantin Trușcă. The new institution on the map of Mehedinți county is divided in three sections – etnography, history and numismatics – where the county collections are exposed. For decades, […]

Constantin Rădulescu Motru was born in the house in Butoiești. He spent the first seven years there and he would always come in the summer, during the breaks from school. At the age of seven he went into 1st grade, in Butoiești. He was enrolled with the name Popescu. Later, during high school, because there […]

Under the pastorate of the priest Ilie Dumitrescu was built up from brick wall on the place of an old small church, this church with the titular saint of “Saint Pious Parascheva” by the Christians of the village Buicești. Before finishing the holy place of worship, the priest dies, the work being accomplished by his […]

The building was built, according to tradition by Ghiţă Cuţui, pandour captain and his son, Constantin, around 1815. The place where the forteress was built is tied to a tragic story in the captain’s life. A group of Turkish people from the Ada-Kaleh Island kidnapped Ghiţă Cuţui’s wife. For the ransom, the pandour sold part […]

Cuțuilor Church, a worship house dedicated to Saints Emperors Constantin and Elena was built in 1836 by Constantin Cuţui, son of pandour captain Ghiţă Cuţui. Since the founder died in the meantime, the church was painted at the expense of his son Mihalache in 1840. Afterwards the church had a few transformations, being entirely paved […]