Liceul de Arte "Bălaşa Doamna" Târgovişte

In 1957 across the country music schools are organized, in most of the towns. This way, in Targoviste, appears the Art School, with first to the fourth grades. The lessons will be attended in a beautiful private house, donated to the educational system in 1923 by a superior clerk from the Ministry of Finance, Constantin Carabella.

Surrounded by a beautiful garden with many special and rare plants, the romantic charm of this place is still here even today. The 110 years old house is part of the architectural heritage.
From 1984 to 1989, the school has been affiliated to the School 6 (today it is called Tudor Vladimirescu). The year 1990 is the beginning of a long line of transformations: the school becomes again an independent institution and from 1995 has a full schedule (general culture, music, arts, elementary school). In 1997, becomes the Art and Music High School. The learning space becomes bigger from 1998 because of a new building and in 2002 the amphitheatre George Enescu is inaugurated, a modern concert hall with 210 seats capacity.

In the same year a new section is opened: the architecture section. In 2006 the institution is called the Art High School Balasa Doamna. In 2008 another new section is opened, the design section.
Affined to the name of our high school is the National Contest of Instrumental Interpretation W.A.Mozart which had its first edition in Targoviste in 1997. This yearly manifestation gained an well-deserved reputation among the contests of this kind.
The last 18 years of this institution are the mirror of the daily life in Romania : dynamic, always changing. In June 2007, in recognition for its successes, the institution is called by the Ministry an European School .