From among the old buildings around Craiova we can see today, certified as the oldest one. It belongs to the category of the monumental religious constructions of Wallachia. Unfortunately, aside from the church, there is no other building we can see today. Most of the buildings were destroyed by the internal or external enemies and set on fire, the other ones were destroyed by natural calamities, as the overflowing of the Jiu and many earthquakes. The date of its building is differently indicated in many sources. It was built on December 3 1572, according to the rotive in the church porch, An old inventary indicates that the monastery was built in 1483 (the historians B.P. Hasdeu and Nicolae Iorga sustained this idea). The date of its building is differently indicated in many sources. It was built on December 3, 1572, according to the rotive in the church porch, An old inventary indicates that the monastery was built in 1483 (the historians B.P. Hasdeu and Nicolae Iorga sustained this idea). There were used rock (for the foundation) and brick (for the socle and walls) from Pelendava, the Roman camp. From the architectonic point of view, the church is built in the Wallach style (this style is characterized by the synthesis between the folk elements and the Byzantine elements). The church of the Jitianu Monastery is known as Serban Voievod's (1654-1658) foundation. The church was restored in 1717, 1852, 1910, 1926 and 1958. During the history of Craiova, there were sheltered many important defense armies of the city in this monastery. Today, inside the civilian building of the monastery there is a rich collection of jewels of the medieval art of Wallachia. The art of Craiova at the end of the XVII-th century and the beginning of the XVIII-th century is characterized by the Brancovan style, the brilliant synthesis of the Romanian traditional art, the eastern (Byzantine) elements, especially the Venetian ones. The churches characterized by this style were restored in the course of time. Some of them keep many traces of the Brancovan art, such as the wonderfully ornamented woodworks with the Byzantine eagle. Such churches as the Saint Ilie, built in 1720 by the Magistrate Ilie Oteteliseanu and the important merchants of the city (painted by the painter Constantin Lecca between 1840-1841, restored in 1893, the present painting being achieved by Gh.Ioanid and Gh. Tatarescu), the All Saint's Church (1700), the Saint Gh.Vechi Church (1730), the Obedeanu Monastery (1747), the Mantuleasa Church (1786), the Saint Nicolae (1794) - certify the masterlines of the builders of this city. The revitalization and the prolongation of the Brancovan style during the first decades of the XVIII-th- century can be explained by the fact that the Austrians tried without succeeding to replace the traditional orthodoxism of the population by the Catholicism (they built a catholic church during the first years of their rule 1718-1720). The Saint Dumitru Church is one of the most important constructions; it was founded by Matei Basarab in 1652. The time and people made changes to the church. Constantin Brancoveanu? restored the windows frames in the Brancovan style; Constantin Obedeanu restored the church in 1723 and the boyars Argetoianu in 1774. Because of the earthquakes of 1840, the church was destroyed and it was closed by 1889. When the restoration workings began under the architect Andre Lecompte de Navy, who built the present construction from its basis without taking into account the style of the old one. The painting was done in 3 periods by the French painters Emil Menpiot and Bories, and it was finished in 1933.