Pârscov

Pârscov lies in the Buzău valley, where the river winds through the wooded hills north of the Wallachian plain. Villages occupy the terraces and side valleys between the mountains and the market town of Buzău. Nearby Berca Monastery was founded in 1694 by the boyar Mihalcea Cândescu and his wife Alexandrina; its fortified buildings stood above the river. The valley's settlements belonged to a landscape of orchards, woods and river crossings at the entrance to the Carpathian foothills.