Un plan necunoscut al oraşului Târgovişte din 1831
An unknown plan of the town of Târgovişte from 1831

Summary/Abstract: In this study we analyze an unknown plan of the town of Târgovişte, the former capital of Wallachia until about 1700. It is a plan from 1831 discovered in the State Military-Historical Archive of Russia (RGVIA), which provides valuable information about the evolution of this town and its state at the beginning of the 19th century. This cartographic source provides information about the situation of the places of worship at that time, but also about missing buildings, such as the churches of St. Parascheva and Catargiu, or about new institutions, such as the post office. Data are added on the ditch around the city, bastions, the density of buildings, the use of land inside and outside the town, the beginning of the expansion of Târgul de Afară and Sârbi neibourhoods, the area between the arms of river Ialomiţa, surroundings. Significant is also the registration of several ruined buildings (churches and the former princely court), indirectly confirming what we learn from the records of those who visited the town in the first half of the 19th century. Due to the wars and fires of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, but also to the abandonment by the prince and the grand boyars, Târgovişte had become a shadow of what it once was, a town of ruins, which impressed the first romantic writers in Romania. All this completes a valuable picture of the old capital of Wallachia.

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