Bucovina

The monasteries of Bucovina

The eight UNESCO monuments and the rest, with hours, fees and the road between them.

In Bucovina there are 18 monasteries and churches worth the drive, of which 8 are UNESCO world heritage. Below you'll find them all, with the year, the founder and the distance from Câmpulung Moldovenesc, where we write from.

They are not all equally close to one another, and that matters more than it sounds: Voroneț and Humor are a quarter of an hour apart, Putna and Probota two and a half hours. With one day you pick a cluster; with three you do the lot.

The full list of monasteries in Bucovina

Filter by what interests you: UNESCO heritage, how close they are to us, or the century they were built in.

Putna Monastery Putna, Suceava County Moldavian Stephen the Great 105 min from us XV century UNESCO Voroneț Monastery Voroneț, Gura Humorului Classical Moldavian Stephen the Great 40 min from us XV century UNESCO Sucevița Monastery Sucevița, Suceava County Late Moldavian the Movilă family 85 min from us XVI century UNESCO Moldovița Monastery Vatra Moldoviței, Suceava County Moldavian Petru Rareș 40 min from us XVI century UNESCO Humor Monastery Mănăstirea Humorului, Suceava County Moldavian, without a tower chancellor Toader Bubuiog 45 min from us XVI century Dragomirna Monastery Mitocu Dragomirnei, Suceava County Late Moldavian Metropolitan Anastasie Crimca 95 min from us XVII century UNESCO Arbore Church Arbore, Suceava County Hall church hetman Luca Arbore 80 min from us XVI century UNESCO Pătrăuți Church Pătrăuți, Suceava County Early Moldavian Stephen the Great 90 min from us XV century UNESCO Probota Monastery Probota, Dolhasca, Suceava County Moldavian Petru Rareș 135 min from us XVI century UNESCO Saint John the New Monastery Suceava Late Moldavian Bogdan III and Ștefăniță Vodă 70 min from us XVI century Bogdana Monastery Rădăuți, Suceava County Late Romanesque Bogdan I 90 min from us XIV century Slatina Monastery Slatina, Suceava County Moldavian Alexandru Lăpușneanu 100 min from us XVI century Râșca Monastery Râșca, Suceava County Moldavian Petru Rareș 125 min from us XVI century Solca Monastery Solca, Suceava county Late Moldavian Ștefan Tomșa II 75 min from us XVII century Sihăstria Putnei Hermitage Putna, Suceava County A hermitage church monks who came from Putna 110 min from us XVII century The Assumption Basilica of Cacica Cacica, Suceava county Neo-Gothic the Catholic community of Cacica 60 min from us XX century Zamca Monastery Suceava Fortified Armenian the Armenian community of Suceava 75 min from us XVII century Sihăstria Rarăului Hermitage The Rarău massif, Câmpulung Moldovenesc Contemporary neo-Moldavian the hermits of Rarău 45 min from us XVIII century

Boltă de biserică acoperită integral cu mozaic bizantin, cu sfinți și ornamente aurii — The painting on the walls is why people come. The light is why they come in the morning.

Raze de soare intrând prin ferestrele înalte ale unei biserici, peste un policandru aprins — The painting on the walls is why people come. The light is why they come in the morning.

What to skip, if you only have one day

Everyone hands you a list. I'll hand you a cut: in one day you cannot see them all. Voroneț, Humor and Moldovița fit comfortably into a single morning, because they sit close together. Sucevița asks for another two hours, and is worth them: it has the most complete exterior painting of the lot. Putna is a day in itself, not a stop.

And if you want one monastery and nothing else: Voroneț in the morning, before nine, when nobody is there and the light falls on the west wall.

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