Saturday the Upper Monastery - Located on the river Saturday, at the foot of Fagaras Mountains, the monastery is famous as a place of silence, comfort and strength of mind for praying believers and visitors often come in this sanctuary. Brancoveanu Monastery history begins in the early seventeenth century. At the beginning of the sixteenth century have more indirect evidence indicating the existence of the monastery by the monks in various papers scattered, the first direct evidence we have of 1654, the village and the estate of Upper Saturday came into possession of Preda Brancoveanu nobleman place in southern Carpathians.
It is said that he built a wooden church on the river Saturday, probably hermit monks here. In its place, around the year 1696, Prince Constantin Brancoveanu ruler of Romanian (1688-1714), built of stone and brick a monastery.
Balea Lake - is located at an altitude of 2034 meters or so below find Balea waterfall, 1234 m, in Fagaras mountains, Transfagarasan, about 65 km from Sibiu. The area is easily accessible from the earliest times, but especially with the commissioning of Transfagarasan. Not only the beauty of the surrounding area, but its charm has contributed to this location one of the most beautiful tourist complex in the Carpathians who with Balea Lake, formed one of the most attractive tourist areas in Fagaras. In Fagaras Mountains, between peaks Moldoveanu and Negoi (the highest in the country), although there are other spectacular waterfalls, the most famous remains Balea or Urlatoarea Bale, who by jumping or 50-60 meters, marks actually there at over 1200 meters altitude, the lower stage cirque namesake, of which more top but starts creek that gave birth.
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