Built in the beginning of the 18th century, it was successively rebuilt after the damages suffered and the earthquakes. The fortress, a defense tower inspired by Balcan Turkish architecture, entered the Romanian space staring with the 16th century, reaching its peak during the first part if the Phanariot century. In the beginning of the 19th […]

The Ethnography Museum from Drăcșani was established in 1971 having as profile the local history. It belongs to the category of municipal museum. Exhibits items of ethnography and local history. The museum building was constructed in 1926. Within the museum there are: – Drăcşenei archaeological discoveries in the village; – objects of agricultural purpose; – […]

The Memorial House Anton and Maria Popescu was a established in 1984. The museum opened so has as profile the local history, exposing objects and documents on education and local traditions. Within the museum there are exposed: – Significant local stories on pieces of paper; – List of heroes who fought in the War of […]

According to local tradition, the wooden church is a travelling one. It was brought by carriages to Drăcești, from Cocu village, Arges area, aproximately 80 km away. Radu Crețeanu, who embraced local tradition, claims that the church was built by a great church master from Cocu, which he built in his village and after the […]

Here was where in 1879 Gala Galaction, writer, orthodox priest, theology professor at the Cernăuţi and Bucharest universities and the translator of the most appreciated of the Bible in Romanian, was born. The small building was raised with the help of the contribution of the inhabitants of Dideşti town, in 1978. The house has three […]

Saint Dumitru Church, also known as Coșoteni Monastary, is the central church in the former Tigania Monastary – Drăgănești. Around this small church a clerical crowd was gathered and here is also where the first schools in Teleorman county. Founded in 1647, the Coșoteni church is mentioned in historian Stoicescu’s biography under the name “Draganesti […]

The building built in 1711 is placed today in the old cemetary in town. It does not originate in the south of the country. It was brought to Bujoreni in 1868, from a mountain village whose name was forgotten in time. Legend says that the move was done with twelve ox drawn carriages, probably over […]

Ruined church on the outskirts of Baldovineşti village was dated in the absence of any document or inscriptions by archaeologists Voica Puşcaşu Maria and Ion Dumitrescu after stylistic criteria, during the reign of Matei Basarab. Previously to their report the church was mentioned in 1898 in the Great Geographical Dictionary of Romania, “the former monastery […]

Saint Pantelimon Monastary between Balaci and Siliștea-Gumești had a much more cruel fate than the other monastaries around Balaci. The military unit and the airport, founded here after WWII, erased any trace of the convent. There is a letter of an archbishop from Teleorman requesting the Historical Monuments Commision in 1921, the demolition of the […]

The church was built in the second part of the 17th century by Constantin Bălăceanu. From the official documents it’s shown that the „Adormirea Maicii Domnului” church building began in 1864 but was finalized in 1825, due to a turbulent period through which the Bălăceanu family went, who handled the construction of the Christian building. […]