Thematic Route: The Cultural Heritage Route

Name of the Touristic Attraction: Cerneți Monastery

Location: in Cerneți Village, Șimian Commune, Mehedinți County, 5 km away from Drobeta Turnu Severin.  Cerneți Village can be reached turough the DJ607A.

Legend / Story / Impressions / Recommendations: Cerneți Monastery is dedicated to the “Holy Trinity” and is on the list of historical monuments in Mehedinţi County. In 1662, Grigore Ghica voivode laid the foundation stone of the Cerneți Monastery’s Church. The church is fortified, being made of thick walls and narrow drawing windows that allowed the defense from the inside. It is a massive construction, with two towers out of which the one on the narthex plays the role of a bell tower as well. Today, from the whole monastery, only traces of the cellars ruins and the wall of the enclosure can be seen. Cerneți Monastery was known as an episcopal settlement and later on as a monastic settlement of monks. In 1970 the monastery entered in the heritage of the Iron Gates Museum. Today this worship place is a nunnery, administered by the Episcopate of Severin and Strehaia. The outside architecture consists of simple arcs in semicircle that sits on a horizontal girdle. The painting is no longer the original, because in the nineteenth century the church suffers two restorations. In 1827 all the painting was restored, under the management of Stefan Jianu, and in 1866 also the iconostasis. The votive painting depicts the entire family of Ghica Voivode.

Information and Contact:

The monastery is administered by the Episcopate of Severin and Strehaia:

Phone: +4 0252 333 048, +4 0252 333 039,

E-mail: secretariat@episcopiaseverinului.ro

Website: www.episcopiaseverinului.ro

Route close to other Thematic Routes:

In the area you can also visit:

1. The House of Tudor Vladimirescu
2. The House of Nistor
3. „Saint John the Baptizer” Church in Cerneți, built in 1820
4. Șimian Island
5. “Saint Nicholas and Saint Spiridon” Church, in Cerneți, a church whose plan has a unique peculiarity in the sense that the pronaus and the nave are projected laterally and rely on small resellers.
6. „Dedovița” paleontological site

Other useful information:

Events in Cerneți:

The feast “On the road of Tudor Vladimirescu – at the beginning of June, in Cerneți – an event dedicated to the memory of the 1821 revolutionary, Tudor Vladimirescu.

GPS Coordinates: lat, long: 44.63844, 22.70884, elevation: 57 m