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Things to do in Gura Humorului

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Ninety seconds on Gura Humorului

A small town where the Humor meets the Moldova, and the best placed base for the painted monasteries: Voroneț is four kilometres away and Humor five, in opposite directions. Both can be done on foot from the town in a day. The churches were painted on the outside between about 1487 and 1596, which was a way of teaching a congregation that stood in the churchyard rather than inside. Eight of them are on the UNESCO list and the frescoes have survived five centuries of Carpathian weather.

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  1. Humor Monastery

    Monastery · 1.5 hr

    A church of 1530 painted in 1535, on the UNESCO list, with a reddish ground rather than Voroneț's blue and an open porch that lets weather onto the paint. The siege of Constantinople on the south wall is dressed as a sixteenth century battle.

  2. Moldovița Monastery

    Monastery · 1.5 hr

    A fortified monastery of 1532 with painting of 1537, on the UNESCO list, holding the best preserved siege of Constantinople of the group and a throne left by Petru Rareș. It is twenty six kilometres over a low pass.

  3. Voroneț Monastery

    Monastery · 1.5 hr

    The church of 1488, painted outside in 1547, whose Last Judgement covers the entire west wall against a blue so particular that the colour carries the monastery's name. It is on the UNESCO list and it is the one everybody sees.

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