Lalova,Tipova Travel Guide
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Very close to the tourist pension, only at 2 km distance „Hanganu's Inn” was situated probably, one of the most amazing monastic compositions built in rock from the country, Tipova. In addition, it really considered one of the biggest in Europe. It is something special, coming from the construction very easy structure, cause all constructions is ordered in a few levels and covered an enough big space, and in other old time, the monastery hermitage have more than 700 monks. Hundreds of the monastic cells were built across this place close to the monastery. The Monastic Community on this place was founded before the Moldavian state creation. It is considered that some of the cells were built in the rocky border of the Nistru in the X-XII century. This monastery on the Nistru borders was a guardian and serve as sign in the case of the barbarian invasion that coming from the Ukrainian step.
The monastery was built on the topic of some abrupt rocks, opening a great landscape of the Nistru river everglades, situated 100 m, over the sea. A great impression has on all visitors the church the “Mother's God Asleep”, that is very spacious built in the basilic style, having all the plastered walls and semispherical cap a little vaulted remembering about the sky. The 1776 year is recognized as the welfare year, when the monastery coming to have initiatives to becoming bigger. The digging church in the rock was divided in many other bigger spaces/rooms, that were separated by big and columns solid, all the access way becoming larger and the primordial fighting function disappear.
The special spirit of these places is directly linked to you when you coming here on the Nistru right border. All local peoples describe inexplicable energy of these places that becoming more empowered by the old local legends. It used to say that in this monastery Stefan the Great the king of Moldova, was engaged with his future wife Maria Voichita. Moreover, that in nights her souls wearing something white can be saw. There are people that remarked that is the soul of his daughter, Marusca, that find a place to rest forever. In addition, her room is an energetical point that can be felt even by touch.
Moreover, other legends older, said that somewhere in these places close to the geto-dacs fortress have been living the last years of his life the mythological poet Orfeu. That was buried under a tombstone very close to the fortress. All of researchers are agree that such grove was discovered very close to Tipova.
On one of the hills that are around the Tipova defile, during the antiquity (IV-III BC century), was an earthen fortress of geto-dacs. Still to our days still are very well preserved the earthen bastions.
The monastery was built on the topic of some abrupt rocks, opening a great landscape of the Nistru river everglades, situated 100 m, over the sea. A great impression has on all visitors the church the “Mother's God Asleep”, that is very spacious built in the basilic style, having all the plastered walls and semispherical cap a little vaulted remembering about the sky. The 1776 year is recognized as the welfare year, when the monastery coming to have initiatives to becoming bigger. The digging church in the rock was divided in many other bigger spaces/rooms, that were separated by big and columns solid, all the access way becoming larger and the primordial fighting function disappear.
The special spirit of these places is directly linked to you when you coming here on the Nistru right border. All local peoples describe inexplicable energy of these places that becoming more empowered by the old local legends. It used to say that in this monastery Stefan the Great the king of Moldova, was engaged with his future wife Maria Voichita. Moreover, that in nights her souls wearing something white can be saw. There are people that remarked that is the soul of his daughter, Marusca, that find a place to rest forever. In addition, her room is an energetical point that can be felt even by touch.
Moreover, other legends older, said that somewhere in these places close to the geto-dacs fortress have been living the last years of his life the mythological poet Orfeu. That was buried under a tombstone very close to the fortress. All of researchers are agree that such grove was discovered very close to Tipova.
On one of the hills that are around the Tipova defile, during the antiquity (IV-III BC century), was an earthen fortress of geto-dacs. Still to our days still are very well preserved the earthen bastions.
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