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În incinta mănăstirii, ridicată în perioada 1695-1697, începând cu acest ultim an, spătarul a ridicat un spital cu 24 de paturi după modelul vechiului spital veneţian „Santo Lazzaro e Medicanti“, spiţerie „cu felurite leacuri şi felurite buruieni tămăduitoare“, casă pentru chirurg, şcoală, odăi pentru dascăli şi alte acareturi toate acestea fiind gata pe la 1714-1715 când nepotul său Ştefan le-a împrejmuit pe toate cu un zid.
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The founder of the Colţea church and hospital is the Spatar Mihail Cantacuzino (holder of the princely sword and bludgeon), son of the Stolnic (Seneschal) Constantin Cantacuzino and brother of the Voivode Şerban Cantacuzino (1678-1688), who also left us the Sinaia Monastery and the jewel known as the “Fundenii Doamnei” Church in Bucharest. Inside the monastery, raised between 1695 and 1697, starting with the latter year, Mihai Cantacuzino added a hospital with 24 beds, following the model of the old Venetian hospital „Santo Lazzaro e Medicanti“, a pharmacy with “all sorts of cures and healing plants”, a house for the surgeon, a school, rooms for the teachers and other outhouses, all these being completed around 1714-1715, when his nephew Ştefan surrounded them with a wall. Around 1746 the eight trustees of the Colţea Monastery felt that it would be good to increase the settlement’s income by building an inn that was, as the plan of Major Borroczyn designed between 1847 and 1852 indicates, roughly where Doamnei Street currently is, on the left side as we look from the boulevard, encompassing the St. Ilie Church (currently the Bulgarian Church) in its courtyard.
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