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The Best Attractions In Suceava County

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Suceava County is a county of Romania. Most of its territory lies in the southern portion of Bukovina, a historical region, while the remainder forms part of Western Moldavia proper. The county seat is Suceava.
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  • 4. Suceava Fortress Suceava
    Suceava is the largest city and the seat of Suceava County, situated in the historical region of Bukovina from Central Europe and north-eastern Romania respectively. The city was the capital of the medieval Principality of Moldavia from 1388 to 1565.Between 1775 and 1918, the city was the third largest urban settlement from the Duchy of Bukovina , a constituent province of the Austrian Empire, subsequently a crown land within Austria-Hungary, being only surpassed by Cernăuți and Rădăuți to the north. Throughout this period of time, it fulfilled the task of an important, strategically-located commercial border town with the then Romanian Old Kingdom , receiving a large influx of German-speaking settlers in the process .After 1918, along with the rest of Bukovina, Suceava became part of...
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  • 5. Humor Monastery Gura Humorului
    Humor Monastery located in Mănăstirea Humorului, about 5 km north of the town of Gura Humorului, Romania. It is a monastery for nuns dedicated to the Dormition of Virgin Mary, or Theotokos. It was constructed in 1530 by Voievod Petru Rareş and his chancellor Teodor Bubuiog. The monastery was built over the foundation of a previous monastery that dated from around 1415. The Humor monastery was closed in 1786 and was not reopened until 1990. The church has been inscribed by UNESCO on its list of World Heritage Sites, as one of the Painted churches of Moldavia.
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  • 10. Putna Monastery Putna
    The Putna monastery is a Romanian Orthodox monastery, one of the most important cultural, religious and artistic centers established in medieval Moldavia; as with many others, it was built and dedicated by Stephen the Great. Putna was founded on the lands perambulated by the Putna . Stephen the Great is famous for building and influencing the building of dozens of churches and monasteries all over Moldavia . The Putna Monastery houses the tombs of Stephen —nowadays, a place of pilgrimage —, and several of his family members. The icon veils and tombstones are held as fine examples of Moldavian art in Stephen the Great’s time.
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