Găiseni

Găiseni stands near the old road linking Târgoviște with the Danube. Its early modern history is closely associated with the Strâmbu hermitage, founded in the sixteenth century by Drăghici Vintilescu, a high official under Prince Neagoe Basarab. The foundation appears in a document of 3 April 1526 issued by Radu de la Afumați. A later princely document, dated 1605, records the burial there of the founder and members of his family.

The monastery thus served as a place of worship and a family burial foundation within the political world of the Wallachian court. In 1752 Grigore II Ghica placed it under the monastery and hospital of Saint Panteleimon. That decision connected this rural religious house with a larger charitable establishment supported by princely patronage.