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Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape (Uruguay)
    

Le Monastère de Neamt

Date of Submission: 01/03/1991
Criteria: (i)(ii)(iv)
Category: Cultural
Submitted by:
Commission Nationale des Monuments, Ensembles et Sites Historiques - Bucarest
Coordinates: Moldavie
Ref.: 544
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Description

Important etablissement monastique du Moyen Age, L'un des plus anciens de la Moldavie (fin du XIVe siecle), dont l'eglise principale, placee soU5 le vocable de l'Ascension,(1497), constitue l'exemplaire le plus representatif du style moldave du temps d'Etienne le Grand (1457-1504) dans l'architecture religieuse, remarcable par les solutions planimetriques et spatiales que l'on a trouvees. Plan triconque forme d'un sanctuaire, naos, chambre funeraire, narthex et exonarthex, a systeme de voutement typiquement moldave.A l'exterieur, l'harmonie des decorations et des formes est soutenue et marquee par la toiture fragmentree conformement a la structure interieure du systheme de voutement. Le monastere comprend dans son ensemble une enceinte avec une tour-clocher et un petit village monacal. Des le debut il a ete l'un des foyers de culture les plus importants de la Moldavie, par les scriptoria, l'imprimerie, l'ecole.