The 100Tracks cartography team: Hermitages, worship places dug in stone, unearthed in Buzau County

More than 30 hermitages and worship places dug in stone hundreds of years ago were unearthed in the southeastern County of Buzau, a release of the 100Tracks cartography team sent to AGERPRES on Thursday informs.

According to the source, the team that was marking a tourist road in the Boziorul area with the Buzau County also found a few mystical settlements dug in the rock, after the last period's rains that have unearthed these early Christianity evidence.

"In this area of the Pintenul Ivanetu limestone massif in the region of Colti, Alunis, Nucu and Boziorul localities over 30 cave settlements - cells and worship places - were identified, dug in stone hundreds of years ago, some of which keeping evidence of the pre-historical age. This is the largest concentration of cave hermitages and monastic dwellings in the Romanian space," the source adds.

In the 3rd and 4th centuries, say the 100Tracks' team, these settlements were sheltering the first preachers of Christianity in the area north of Danube, being true centres with an intense religious activity. A part of these cells were inhabited by hermits until the 19th century,

The 100Tracks team is specialised in the mapping of the tourist off-road paths (4x4) and has the professional outfit that helps them get to the hard-to-reach areas.AGERPRES(RO - author: Oana Ghita, editor: Andreea Rotaru; EN - author: Maria Voican, editor: Simona Iacob)