Bucovina, a region of northern Moldavia, is all about traditions preserved for centuries, hospitality and wonderful landscapes, but the one thing that really remains in the heart and mind of the tourists are the unique churches, for the beauty of their interior and exterior paintings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a specific architecture, displaying wonderful frescoes inspired by Byzantine art, the churches and monasteries here have always been a major attraction for tourists everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The churches were built during the medieval period, between the end of the 15th century and the middle of the 16th century. The paintings re-interpret original full-length scenes from the Bible, respecting the Orthodox canons, but from the specific angle of the painters. Murals cover the exterior and interior walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The colors and shades of the frescoes are the ones that impressed the specialists, being characteristic of each church, and so one can talk about the specific blue of Vorone\u0163, but also the red-green of Sucevita, the Moldovi\u021ba yellow, the red of Humor or the Arbore green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of the dozens of churches and medieval monasteries that you will find throughout Bukovina, eight have really astonishing exterior frescoes and have been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. These are: In 1993, UNESCO included the eight Orthodox churches on the World Heritage List, under the name \u201cPainted Churches in Northern Moldavia\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visit the painted churches of Bucovina with Romania Color!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bucovina, a region of northern Moldavia, is all about traditions preserved for centuries, hospitality and wonderful landscapes, but the one thing that really remains in the heart and mind of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,17],"tags":[],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-places","category-religion","category-unesco-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romaniacolor.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romaniacolor.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romaniacolor.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romaniacolor.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romaniacolor.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/romaniacolor.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/romaniacolor.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romaniacolor.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romaniacolor.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romaniacolor.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romaniacolor.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romaniacolor.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2013 Church of Arbore<\/strong><\/em>. It is an Orthodox church dedicated to the \u201cCutting of the Head of St. John the Baptist\u201d which was built in 1502 by the hatman Luca Arbore during the reign of Stephen the Great.
\u2013 The Church of the Humor Monastery<\/strong><\/em> built in 1530 by the great Archbishop Toader Bubuiog during the reign of Petru Rare\u0219. It is an Orthodox church with the patrons \u201cAssumption of the Virgin\u201d and \u201cSt. George\u201d.
\u2013 The Church of the Moldovi\u021ba Monastery<\/strong><\/em> \u201cBuna Vestire\u201d was founded by Prince Petru Rare\u0219 in 1532.
\u2013 The Church of P\u0103tr\u0103u\u0163i<\/strong><\/em> having the patronage \u201cThe Raise of the Holy Cross\u201d, founded in 1487 by Stephen the Great, Lord of Moldavia.
\u2013 The Church of Probota Monastery<\/strong><\/em>, built by Prince Petre Rare\u0219 in 1530. The church\u2019s saint day is \u201cSt. Nicholas\u201d. The monastery also played the role of a burial place for the rulers of Moldavia, including the tombs of the princes Petru Rare\u015f and \u015etefan Rare\u015f, Elena Rare\u015f and other members of the reigning family of Moldavia.
\u2013 The Church of \u201dSaint John the New\u201d Monastery in Suceava<\/strong><\/em>. The church was begun in 1514 by Lord Bogdan III of Moldavia and finished in 1522 during the reign of \u015etef\u0103ni\u021b\u0103 Vod\u0103. It had the role of a metropolitan church between 1522 and 1677. The church has the patrons \u201cSaint George\u201d and \u201cSaint John the New \u201c.
\u2013 The Church of the Sucevi\u021ba Monastery<\/strong><\/em>, dedicated to the \u201cResurrection of the Lord\u201d, was built between 1583 and 1586 by the Movile\u015fti boyars\u2019 family during the reign of Petru \u015echiopul.
\u2013 The Church of the Vorone\u0163 Monastery<\/strong><\/em>, also called the \u201cSistine Chapel of the East\u201d, was founded by Stephen the Great, built in 1488 in only 3 months and 3 weeks. The church is dedicated to \u201dSt. George\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n