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Ciolanu Monastery
Ciolanu Monastery

The Ciolanu Monastery is a monastery of Eastern Orthodox monks, located in the Măgura commune, Buzău County, Romania. This article concerns the buildings occupied by monastics. For the life inside monasteries and its historical roots see Monasticism. The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian Communion in the world Măgura is a commune in the Buzău County of Romania, located on the right bank of the Buzău river, in the hillside next to the Carpathian Buzău (bu'zəu is a county ( Judeţ) of Romania, in the historical region Muntenia, with the capital city at Buzău. Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania It was erected around 1570 by Dumitru Ciolanu, a boyar from Buzău, whose name it bears, together with the Sorescu boyar family from the nearby Verneşti commune. This article refers to the aristocratic title of boyar. For the Boyar caste of India, see Boyar (caste. The city of Buzău (bu'zəw is the county seat of Buzău County, Romania, in the historical region of Wallachia. Verneşti (/ver'neʃtʲ/ is a commune in Buzău County in the Wallachia region of Romania.

The compound contains a museum with icons painted by Gheorghe Tattarescu, as well as religious artifacts. Gheorghe Tattarescu (October 1818 - October 24 1894) was a Moldavian born Romanian painter and a pioneer of Neoclassicism


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