{"id":30380,"date":"2022-06-28T13:42:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T11:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/?p=30380"},"modified":"2024-11-30T12:15:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T11:15:58","slug":"sucevita-orthodox-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/sucevita-orthodox-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sucevita"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The orthodox monastery of Sucevita<\/strong><\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The orthodox monastery of Sucevita is one of the most famous among the painted churches in the North East of Romania.<\/p>\n

Its architecture and outside paintings attract numerous tourists from all over the world.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”30385″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sucevita\u2019s monastery \u2018\u2018manastirea Sucevita\u2019\u2019 was build at the end of XVIth century by the Movila family. It is often considered like \u2018\u2018the Moldavian art\u2019s legacy\u2019\u2019. The monastery\u2019s church has been classify by UNESCO as world heritage. Surrounded by hills, the building is surrounded by walls flanked by towers with pointed roofs. Those defense walls are 6 meters tall and 3 meters thick.<\/p>\n

Its central church is entirely covered with frescos where the green and red outshine. Those frescos show an important number of biblical characters. Saints, prophets, chroniclers, and martyrs are counted by hundreds, their expressions extremely worked deserve to be observed one by one.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”30388″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”30391″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The construction of the initial monastic group started during the XVIth century. It lasted from 1581 to 1601.<\/p>\n

The first church build by the Movila\u2019s family members on the current monastic facility was of humble dimension.<\/p>\n

After having reached Moldova\u2019s throne in 1595, Ieremia Movila added to the church two external crossbars on the northen and southern entrance sides, then the reinforced fortifications of rectangular shape and the four enclosure towers that give to the monastery its medieval city apperance. He finally added a residence for princes, today in ruins, and the monk\u2019s cells.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”30394″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded” onclick=”link_image”][vc_column_text]Visiting hours<\/strong>
\nThe monastery is open every day from 7 am to 9 pm
\nThe museum can be visited from 9 am to 5 pm
\nThe Saint Mass take place between 9.30 am and 12 am Saturday and Sunday, from 7.30 am to 9.00 am the other days.
\nOfficial site\u00a0: click here >><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Others possible visits close to the Sucevita\u2019s monastery[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”30398″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]The citadel of Suceava, also known in the name of \u2018\u2018cetatea de scaun din Suceava\u2019\u2019, it\u2019s a medieval fortress situate in the East of the Suceava\u2019s town (Northeast of Romania). It is located on a foothills of a plateau at 70 meter of altitude above the Suceava\u2019s mountain pasture. From here, you can see all the valley of Suveava.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”30401″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Gura Humorului is a town of the Suceava\u2019s department, in Bucovine, situate in the North East of Romania. This village shelters the famous Voronet\u2019s monastery that has gived its name to the blue color of Voronet.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”30404″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]According to the legend, the king Stefan Cel Mare took his bow and loose an arrow from the top of the neighboring mountain to the place where the sanctuary was built.<\/p>\n

This monastery became later the place where he was buried.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Discover also the town of Iasi, situate in Moldova by clicking here >><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Discover the official site of the monastery by\u00a0 clicking here >><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Le monast\u00e8re de Sucevita est un des plus connus parmi les \u00e9glises peintes du Nord Est de la Roumanie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[345,1182],"tags":[1678,1809,1808,1807,1764],"class_list":["post-30380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en-en","category-traveling-through-romania-en","tag-bucovine","tag-moldavia","tag-orthodox-monastery","tag-sucevita","tag-unesco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30628,"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30380\/revisions\/30628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centraltransylvania.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}