Glavacioc

Glavacioc is known for its monastery, an old princely foundation among the woods and villages of Wallachia. Its church and monastic buildings served a community supported by gifts of land from rulers and boyars. The monastery appears in a document of 1441, when Vlad Dracul confirmed its possession of a village given by the ban Radu.

Later Wallachian princes, including Radu the Great and Neagoe Basarab, continued to support the foundation. Vlad Călugărul replaced its wooden church with a stone building at the end of the fifteenth century. In 1657 Paul of Aleppo, travelling with Patriarch Macarius of Antioch, described a large church with two towers and stone monastic cells, admiring an architecture that recalled churches he knew in the eastern Mediterranean.