Bucovina Monasteries

I'm in Guernsey after several action-packed days. I don't have time to post about Italy and France right now, but here are some pictures from one of the painted monasteries I visited in Romania. Better posting when things slow down!

[We visited four monasteries--Humor, Voronet, Moldovita, and Sucevita. They were all built between 1488 and 1601, and they are stunning with their top to bottom paintings.]

Sucevita Monastery Exterior

Nuns at Sucevita Trading Candy

Monastery Detail

I love the representation of cherubim (the red, winged figure in the middle) in this painting style. We also saw them in Meteora.

I think this graffiti is really fascinating, because some of it's dated 1890. People have always been jerks.

This tree is at Sucevita and it was covered in bees. I think it suits the monastery. It looks very Biblical to me.