Curtea de Argeș. – A city of Romania, capital of the Argeș district, formerly capital of the principality of Wallachia. In the 14th century it became the seat of the first Orthodox bishop, known as of the Hungarian-Wallachians, and subsequently of the Catholic see of Argeș. In Curtea de Argeș is found the most beautiful architectural monument in all Romania, the Biserica Domnească (“princely church”), built in the 13th or 14th century.
BIBL.: A. Lapadatu, C. de A. et ses monuments, Bucharest 1909; V. N. Drăghiceanu, C. de A., ibid. s.a.; P. Tafrali, Monuments byzantins de C. de A., 2 vols., Paris 1931. Mariano Baffi