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Treasures spiritual of Bucovine

Bucovine and Maramures, two mountainous solid masses which belong to Carpates Orientals.

To the north of Romania, close to Moldavia, contributed has to work the Rumanian identity throughout are history.

Micjel The Brave man - BUCOVINE.com In Bucovine, starting from XVème century, open out, under the impulse of Michel the Brave man, of Etienne the great one - Stefan Cel Mare and other local princes of many monasteries which, in their spirit, were to be useful of counterweight with the growing Othoman influence.

The Russian and Byzantine influences were based with popular artistic traditions in what one called it style Moldavian, present in architecture as in the large ones frescos or the icons which decorate the churches and monasteries.

Bucovine, mystical ground with the many monasteries with the walls outside covered with frescos, was a major crossroads of the cultures from Eastern Europe.

These mountains impressed of spirituality of mysteries and of harmony, shelter ethnic minorities: Slavic, Jewish, Germanic or Armenian.

In Bucovine nature surrounds the churches and monasteries, by their reputation those - were included in the Inheritance Universal of UNESCO. The frescos which covers the walls external of the churches and the monasteries of Bucovine resisted the aggressions of time.

PUTNA

Putna Was rested by Etienne the Large one
en1469 is remained until our days a kind of cathedral like the "Saint - Denis Rumanian".

From the very start, it had wished that it serf of necropolis for its family, after 47 years of reign the father of Moldavia, like it was named are alive, sleeps of are last sleep in crypt of the church of Putna.

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ARBORE

	In1502 the boyard Lucas Raises, of the court of Stefan cel Mare selected a small village which bears its name and there built a church for his/her Ana daughter. The roof of this church does not have a turn, dominant color is the green. It makes come the painter Dragos Coman for decorated this one.
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HUMOR

monastery was founded in 1530 by a family of boyards, Anastasia and Toader Bubuiog, with the assistance of voïvode Petru Rare.

Representations of the Virgin Mary with darling on the pediment of the door, on the wall of the painted veranda its scenes "jugement last".

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MOLDOVITA

monastery was built en1532 under Petru Rares the dominant color frescos is of red brick, on the wall of the south is it sit of constantinopol which belongs to the twenty four episodes of the anthem towards the Virgin Mary and "the tree of Escei".

This monastery is not without pointing out the fortresses medieval, turns with the corners of the walls of defenses of 6 meters of height on 3 meters thickness.

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VORONET

Voronet is the one of most beautiful orthodox church Europe.
Called "the Sixtine vault of the East" the church has summer founded in 1448 by Stefan concealment Pond, paintings with the interior and outside were to realize during reign of Pertru Mare "the piles".

In the frescos the color blue prevails say "blue voronet ".
The wall of the west challenges by the dramatic character of composition which it represents "the last judgement".

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SUCEVITA

Monastery of Sucevita was built between 1582 and 1584, this one was built before the advent with the throne of the one of its princes.

The initiative of this foundation belongs to Gheoghe Movila, with the time bishop of Radauti.

Jeremie Movila dies on June 30, 1606, it is buried with the church of monastery of Sucevita.

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DRAGOMIRNA

Surrounded of hills to the soft and very wooded slopes, or the fir trees intermingle with the oaks, located at 12 km of the old capital of Moldavia Suceava, rises the monastery of Dragomirna.
The history of the monastery starts in 1602 with the construction of small church of the cemetery, dedicated to the saints Enoh, Elie and holy Jean the theologist; it continues by the dedication, 1609 of large church having for votive festival "the illumination leaves the Holy Spirit".

Contrary to the habit of the time, in Dragomirna there is not of votive inscription.

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PROBOTA

In a region formerly covered with drills, or celebrates it "Field of Justice was", there or Etienne the large one was crowned prince, between the valleys and two brooks, Semuz and Probota, were high before 1398 the first monastery of Moldavia whose name in the documents of the time was Probrata or Probota.

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BALINESTI

The Tautu adviser made build in 1493 on his property located at the edge of Siret an imposing church.

This one is today one of the monuments most representative of the time of Etienne the Large one.

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BOGDANA

The Church Saint Nicolas Bogdana of the town of Radauti is oldest monument hones some which remains in Bucovine. It was built by the first voïvode of the independent Rumanian state of Moldavia. The church, set up on the site of old church drink some in 1360 it remains what it always be, one message of the orthodoxy of the time in this area of the country

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RASCA

On the valley of the same name. Pretrus Rares made in 1542 one low-size church with which the frescos were richly decorated between 1611 and 1617.

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PATRAUTI

Church founded Large Etienne share in 1487, the smallest of all monastic construction, and the single one intended to be one monastery of chocolate éclairs, and a hearth for the soldiers wounded with fights.