Cotroceni National Museum
Royal palace museum on a former monastery hill, with seventeenth-century cellars and a rebuilt church.
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This guide to the church inside the Cotroceni National Museum grounds in Bucharest begins with a small reliquary and the two Roman guardsmen, Sergius and Bacchus, whose remains it holds. It then follows Șerban Cantacuzino, a Wallachian nobleman on the run from the ruling prince in the sixteen seventies, into the forest that once covered this hill. Later threads reach the church's destruction and an unusual act of conscience in its rebuilding. Best heard standing near the reliquary inside the church.
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