MIOVENI TOWN

About the Culture House

The building works were begun in the autumn of the year 1983; a lot of human forces have involved on the building site: builders, volunteers, inhabitants of the town. The building was the first cultural edifice from Mioveni, a successful harmony between traditional and modern. Since the year 1985, the year of its opening to the public, it has become a cultural heart of our town.

About the Orthodoxy Cathedral

Placed in the civic centre of the town, the orthodoxy cathedral, “Apostles Saints Peter and Paul’’-the most important symbol of the orthodoxy faith on Arges Valley - relive the big interest of the Local Council.
The artistic values of the building consist of the metal decorative elements realized by profile structures covered with copper sheet, which become some symbolic columns with majestical church spires high up on the roof: the big church spire of Panthocrator and other four small church spires with iron and golden crucial elements. The preoccupation for the excessive decoration of the building is evident, the designers using brown light marmoreal pieces for the support’s cover and the poles of the side stairs.

About the Vieros Monastery

Vieroş Monastery date of XVIth century; it has 2 fountains mountain water fountains. This monastery is the famous building in Goleşti family, famous too in the region. The regional gravestones are the important monuments.
Place of profound patriotic meditation, Vieros Monastery has inspired the famous Romanian playwright Alexandru Davila – descendent through motherhood from Golescu family – in creating his masterpiece called “Vlaicu Voda”.

About the Racovita Mansion

The Racovita Mansion – built 1806 ( in Romanian ,,Cula’’) dominates the Argeş plateau by his extravagant silhouette, with its river’s stones cellar, a specific architecture for defense. The Racovita Mansion is offering now. “The Romanian Rustic Museum’’ (organized in 1970 in collaboration with the People from Racovita and Mioveni ). This museum is organized by: popular costumes, activities, numismatics, art objects, religious preliterate, ceramics, guns, carpenter’s tools, summing over 800 exhibits which spread an air of secret, mystery and respect for the local traditions and customs of these places.

About the Mioveni Hero's Monument

The Mioveni Hero’s Monument (1924) - near the “Liviu Rebreanu” School - built in the memory of the heroes of the first world war and the second world war, has got a support of stone block; another one made of prismatic calcareous elements; on the column, made in relief, there is a big gun having attached a flag with an eagle; the fund is made by a decoration with oak leaves; an eagle is set above the column.