Teodor Brătianu Mansion

In the Teodor Brătianu Mansion complex, currently a home-school for the disabled, Tigveni Village, Tigveni Commune, Argeș County

While driving on Road 73C from Curtea de Argeș to Râmnicu Vâlcea, in the centre of Tigveni Commune, there is a road sign indicating the way to the left towards the historical monument.

This is not a public building.

Further to his marriage to a lady from the Tigveni boyar family, Dincă Brătianu received a land perimeter as a dowry in the second half of the 18^th century; this is where he built a boyar’s mansion. In the period 1860-1870, the mansion was modified and expanded by army major Teodor Brătianu. Expropriated in 1949, the Brătianu Mansion was turned into a hospital school for disabled children.

The building includes an old two-storey area built in the second half of the 18^th century, expanded in the period 1860-1870. The old wing has a compact plane, almost square in shape, while the access stairs are built on the outside South-East wall of the building. On the ground level, which can be accessed separately from the North-East outside area, there are the cellars, covered with “barrel” brick vaults, with transverse arches. The accommodation rooms, partly covered with groined vaults, are built right above the cellars. This floor is accessed by means of an attached gazebo, located on the South-Eastern side, which is accessible from the outside by means of a staircase. The expansion is made on the back of the old wing, to the North-West, through a long and narrow wing formed of a ground floor plus the first floor, which can is accessed separately. The two wings communicate through the upper level.

The Brătian boyar court was built in the second half of the 18^th century. Along with the mansion and its historical outbuildings, the complex also covers the ruins of “Sf. Voievozi” Church, built in the 18^th century.