Niculiţel village is situated in a zone which abounds in vestiges of the past dating from different historical periods: Gaeto-Dacian, Roman (a rural settlement, villae rusticate, a Roman aqueduct, necropolis, the Palaeo-Christian complex), Medieval (the precinct wall, the church with trefoiled plan, Sf. Atanasie Church).

The Palaeo-Christian complex, situated at the eastern limit of the locality, consists in a basilica elevated in time of the emperor Valens on a Palaeo-Christian crypt which sheltered two superposed martyrs’ graves; that of the superior level contained, into a collective coffin, the skeletons of four martyrs which names: Zotikos, Attalos, Kamasis and Philippos and martyrs’ quality – Martyres Hristou - are noted on the crypt’s walls.


The village is surrounded by a wall (named “Valul lui Traian” – Traian’s wall or “Troian” by the inhabitants), 27 km long, which closes a surface of about 50 km². Some earths works (bearings), also surrounded by walls, are present inside the wall. In the absence of methodical investigations, the wall has been dated differently, beginning with IV A.D. until XI – XII A.D. As consequence, it has been attributed to the Romans, proto-Bulgarians or Byzantines.

Sfântul Atanasie Church, elevated in XIV century, as the church of a feudal court, is another witness of the locality Christian past.

3 km south-west from the village, the oldest church with trefoiled plan, elevated in XI-XII, can be seen.

In the village vicinity, the picturesque landscape is the location of three monasteries: Cocoş Monastery - founded by the Transylvanian monks Visarion, Gherontie and Isaiia at their return from Athos Mountain; Celic-Dere Monastery - elevated at the middle of XIX century as nuns’ monastery; Saon Monastery, founded in 1864 as a little Celic-Dere nuns’ hermitage and which became independent in 1881.

The presence of numerous cult places and of the monasteries as well as the name “Monastire” (Monastery) which denominated the village on the medieval and modern maps until XIX century, demonstrate that this settlement constituted an important religious centre.

On other side, the ancient and medieval vestiges discovered on the village territory prove an intense inhabitancy continued also under the Ottoman domination by a Romanian population which main occupation was the viticulture.