Six kilometres north of Târgoviște on a low hill (dealu means hill), a fortified monastery founded in 1431 and rebuilt in stone in 1500 by Radu cel Mare. The church, with its carved twin spires and unusual stone facade work, is one of the most distinctive monastic buildings in Wallachia.
The site doubles as a memorial to Michael the Brave, whose head is buried here. The cloister has been a monastery for monks, a girls' school, a military training college, and a Romanian Orthodox novitiate at different times in its long history. A taxi from Târgoviște costs about 30 lei each way.