Things to do
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Bucovina Village Museum
An open air museum below the fortress holding farmsteads, a pottery workshop and a wooden church moved from villages in the region, laid out as a working settlement with lanes and fences. It is entered from the fortress car park and takes about an hour to cross.
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Seat Fortress
The princely fortress begun about 1388 and strengthened by Stephen the Great, which held sieges by Mehmed the Conqueror in 1476 and by John Albert two decades later. A heavy restoration finished in the last decade rebuilt the roofs and bridges, which divides opinion and does make the plan legible.
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Bukovina Museum
The regional history collection, covering the Moldavian principality, the Habsburg period after 1775 and the division of Bukovina in 1940. It is the context the monasteries are usually visited without, stands on the main street in the centre, and takes about an hour.
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Saint John the New Monastery
The metropolitan church of 1522 with an exterior painted in the Moldavian manner, on the UNESCO list, holding the relics of the martyr the town made its patron. It is the one painted church inside a city, and the south wall keeps the most of its colour.
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Zamca Monastery
An Armenian monastery of 1606 on a plateau north west of the centre, fortified with earth ramparts and a gatehouse, and the largest surviving Armenian foundation in the country. It is reached on foot from the centre in half an hour and the gate is open in daylight.
