Comana Monastery

Having fallen into disrepair, the original monastery was completely demolished and rebuilt in 1589 by Radu Șerban, future prince of Wallachia, Romania.

In 1861, the foundation of the original monastery built by Vlad Tepes was rediscovered by Ioan Brezoianu.

By 1960, the separate village of Vlad Țepeș had been established 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) west of Comana.

[1] During archeological work performed in the 1970s, a headless body, which may be that of Vlad Țepeș, known as Vlad the Impaler, was discovered on the grounds of the current monastery.

Historian Constantin Rezachevici and others believe that he may have been buried here, near the battlefield where he was killed.