Historical Region of Romania - Bucovina

BUKOVINA - Historical Region of Romania

Bukovina is the region nearby Suceava, Campulung Moldovenesc and Radauti localities from Romania and Cernauti from Ucraina, region which together with the Northern Moldavia was called "Tara de sus" (Upper Country). Region with beautiful landscapes but also with a string of monasteries founded by great Moldovian voivodes and boyers (The Musatins, Alexander the Good (Alexandru cel Bun), Stephen the Great (Stefan cel Mare), Petru Rares, Stephen (Stefan) Tomsa, Alexander (Alexandru) Lapusneanu, Movilesti family a.o.), each with its specific colour: Voronet (blue), Humor (red), Sucevita (green), Moldovita (yellow) and Arbore (combination of colours). All these monasteries, due to their outter paintings (fresco) were taken into evidence by UNESCO and have received in 1976 the "Pomme d'or" prize of FIJET International Organization for their cultural - touristic value. Thought in other style, but not less valuable, there are also the Dragomirna (work of art of the pomp and exotism of the Moldavian architecture, whose colour and light are as those from Saint Sophia in Bizant) and Putna (with one of the richest artistic treasures in Romania and in the world in gothic style, taken in UNESCO evidence) monasteries, or Bogdana Church in Radauti (the oldest in Moldova). In this area, there are Dorohoi and Botosani towns, known by the memorial houses and museums of the great musician George Enescu and national poet Mihai Eminescu (born in Ipotesti, near Botosani).
The administrative centre of the area, Suceava, could be the starting point towards a various touristic objectives: the memorial house at Stupca of the Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu, Vatra Dornei resort, the Rarau Mountains (with the unique reservation of limestones Pietrele Doamnei) and the secular forest at Slatioara. Southward of the "Upper Country", near Targu Neamt town, there are some important touristic objectives: The "Neamtului" fortress, Ion Creanga national writer's house in Humulesti and the monastires from Neamt, Sihastria, Varatec and Agapia (with some original mural paintings made by the famous painter Nicolae Grigorescu.