The biggest treasures of today Bucovina are the churches and monasteries which are spread all over the region. With their renowned exterior frescoes, these monasteries remain some of the greatest cultural treasures of Romania; some of them being World Heritage Sites. Putna, Sucevita, Voronet, Arbore, Moldovita, Humor are just a few of them, famous for their inner and outer paintings, with their vivid colours and interesting mixture between traditional and Byzantine elements.
Painted 600 years ago, for the simple people who didn’t understood the language the service was read on, the frescoes made these churches famous today all over the world. Their bright and vivid colours, that survived the time, still let one read on the walls of the churches parts of the bible. Famous from all this is Voronet with its legendary “blue of Voronet” and its impressive exterior frescoes that gave it the worldwide reputation of the “Sistine Chapel of the East”.
Shaped like small fortresses, the monastery protected inside their walls for centuries the people and their belief that they can remain free together with their faith, language and way of life.
