All-season health and holiday resort of national importance, situated in SE central
Romania, within the purview of commune Maneciu (Prahova County), on the river Teleajen, in the Teleajen hollow, at the foot of Ciucas Mountains (Eastern Carpathians), elevation 871m, 61 km N of
Ploiesti (Prahova county).
Close to Bratocea opening, the frontier that once separated Wallachia from
Transylvania, the Cheia monastery, a name that indicates a gateway into the mountains, used to hold an important role in maintaining the brotherly relations between Romanians on the two sides of the Carpathian mountains, thus offering generous shelter, peace of mind and culture to Transylvanian Romanians who chose the exile because of religious and nationalist oppression. Cheia locality started to develop from 1840, when the road through the Bratocea gate was opened.
Main Sights
- Cheia Monastery - located on the right bank of Tampa Creek, southeast of Cheia, Prahova County. First attested in 1770, it was destroyed by the Ottomans, then ravaged by fire. The current church was built of stone between 1835 and 1839 and painted by Gheorghe Tattarescu in 1837.
Things to do
- Hiking in Ciucas Mountains
Pictures
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