Sucevita Monastery - details and images
Located in the middle of a charming landscape with gentle slopes and forested mountains, known travelers who cross the lands of Bukovina, the valley of the river whose name it will borrow Sucevita monastery seems at first sight an imposing medieval fortress with high walls, with battlements and watch road, reinforced corners with strong towers aparare.Cu the more, the traveler enters the heavy oak doors, locked in iron, through the corridor entrance arch of the tower will be surprised by the line of supple and harmonious volumes Soaring church architecture in the middle of this city, but mainly by the unusual beauty of the paintings that cover the entire façade, keeping the freshness of color for centuries.
Monastery Sucevita glorious chapter ends Moldavian art XV-XVI centuries, and unlike a prior monuments, it is not the work of a single founder, but a family of nobles who gave a metropolitan country and two rulers: Movilestii.
Sucevita monastery is almost a square with sides of 100 x 104 m, about 3 m thick walls built of rough stone and mortar, have a height of over 6 m and shows the top shooting holes that were accessible by road now partially reconstructed continuous watch.
The best preserved of all pictorial art of medieval Moldavian (including drip remains intact in the north of the monastery, which has not happened to other monasteries), painting and Sucevita is both traditional and innovative. With its huge its "graphic novel" suggested by the many scenes that cover nearly all the church walls both inside and outside, the fresh color palette and extremely varied, this painting may constitute the most precious treasure of the monastery.
Istotric monument of great value to its architecture, fresco and painting is inscribed on the UNESCO heritage list along with the other monasteries of Bucovina exterior painting that form a world-renowned tourist route.
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