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Where is located? 

Cobia monastery is located in the homonym commune of Dambovita county and is unique in the context of the existing monuments, through the decoration of the outside,unprecedented in our architecture . Situated in the south-west of the county, on the county road 702 E, in a specific landscape of the Field of Gaesti, covered by the brook of Cobiuta’s waters, the village offers the vizitors a string of wood churches (four ), all dated at the end of the 18th  century, with planimetrical developments specific to the religious wooden architecture from Dambovita county,through original, architectural approaches, a real frame for the experienced. The Cobia monastery , sanctuary for the monks, functioned until the impropriation of monasteries’ wealth , moment when , having been abandoned by the Greek monks ,it became a myr church . It is situated at 7 kilometers north- east from Gaesti and at 25 kilometers south-west from Targoviste city, in the „Manastire” („Monastery”) village, on the Gaesti – Targoviste road. The „Manastire” („Monastery”)  village lies on each side of the road in a large valley, between two hills of low height, covered with an oak forest.

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