Radovanu

Radovan stands on the Desnățui River in the plain of southern Oltenia. The village is recorded in a document of 1558. Nearby at Târnava, the hermitage of Târnăvița was founded in 1672 by the abbot Partenie. Its church was painted in 1694 by a group of craftsmen led by Andrei, a painter associated with the school of Hurezi, bringing the art of that monastery to this rural corner of Wallachia.