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The Monastery from a Single Tree is located in Valcea county, near the town of Ramnicu Valcea, in a quiet natural setting surrounded by forests. The unusual name of the monastery comes from a legend according to which the first church here was carved from a single old oak, on the spot where a monk is said to have found an icon of the Mother of God. The old wooden church, preserved to this day, is one of the most valuable buildings of its kind in Oltenia.

Beside it rises a larger masonry church, founded in the seventeenth century, adorned with paintings and precious liturgical objects. The monastic complex, with its cells and old walls, conveys an atmosphere of contemplation and continuity. Set not far from other renowned monasteries of Valcea, the Monastery from a Single Tree is a precious stop on the pilgrimage route of northern Oltenia, in a landscape of wooded hills.