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 rather than a row.
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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.
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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.
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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 John Albert in 1497. A heavy restoration finished in 2015 rebuilt the roofs and bridges, which divides opinion and does make the plan legible.
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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. The community that built it has almost gone.