Romania – Bucovina – Day three

Our third day in the North of Romania was dedicated to visit some of the most famous monasteries of this part of the country.

For many years I’ve seen the great photos of the painted monasteries, some of them even being reward with the UNESCO classification.

The first stop included the travelling even more to the north, very close to Ukraine, were we went to the Putna monastery. I guess it’s one of the few places that is not being inhabitedby nuns. The area is very well preserved, with a very beautiful church in the middle, but this one has almost no paintings in the outside, but inside the paintings are very pleasant. It’s one of the most important places of orthodox pilgrimage in this area.

After vising the monastery we went outside and it was time to search for the gecocache located here. It took me much more time than I was expecting, and when I was almost renouncing to it, the box appeared. In the mean time we saw a squirrel, which stayed for sometime looking at us.

 Putna - Bucovina trail 

The road now was to take us to Suceava, one there we wanted to meet the rest of our travel buddies. In the middle of the way we stopped in a church that is being restored. 

In Suceava we stopped in the center, there we stayed for awhile and went to search for this box:

 Suceava City Center 

The next stop was the Suceava fortress. In there we also went to visit a museum with traditional houses from the Moldova region. The museum is very interesting, once it show us not only the architecture, but also the way of living, with some representations of traditions.

It was now time to visit two more places. The first one was the Dragomirna Monastary. Very interesting place, unlike in Putna, here the monastery is the residence of nuns. The church, in the middle, is whitout any paintings in the outside. At the moment we couldn’t see a lake that is nearby, but due to some work, the water was gone… for now.

At the entrance of this monastery we found this cache.  Bucovina Trail - Dragomirna 

Our last stop was the Humor Monastary. Almost with the sun leaving us for this day, we finaly saw a monastery with a painted church, both outside and inside. What is more amasing in these places is that you can watch the prayers and daily routine of the nuns in this place