On the upper plateau is the Șatra (or Șatrița) Hermitage, built in 1996 and today abandoned, where the founder prohibited the access of women under an oath and curse (as at Mount Athos) and where a sign says that only men are allowed there.
It must be known, however, that this rule is not canonical, only the local hierarch can issue such a prohibition, which was not done. Currently, the only Romanian monastery that follows the Athonian ordinances is the one at Frăsinei, in Vâlcea county, where an avaton (ecclesiastical law-decision prohibiting the access of women) was given in 1867.
However, loaded with mysteries and spirituality, the Șatra Pintii mountain remains, anyway, a Mount Athos of the Lăpuş Country.
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