Mănăstirea SUCEVIȚA Monastery (Bucovina, Romania) HD

Enable English subtitle - Activați subtitrarea în românește ! The Sucevita monastery was built at the end of the 16th century by the Movilesti family, a family of great boyars, clergy and even rulers in Moldova, but also in Wallachia. The first founder is the Metropolitan of Moldova, Gheorghe Movila, the church being built in the years 1582-1584, continuing the hesychasm tradition of the successors of the St. Daniil the Isihast. The church was built in the architectural style of Moldavia, in cross shape with circular apses. Ten years later, Jeremia Movila, ruler of Moldavia, brought large additions to the settlement, building walls with four towers at the corners, and a tower with a chapel above the entrance, building the royal house, adding two small open porches and then painting the inner and outer walls of the church. The monastery has the appearance of a fortress, sheltering big treasures, according to the chronicler Ion Neculce. In the colorful landscape that defines the painted Moldovan churches (Voronet - blue, Humor - red), the monastery of Sucevita is individualized by its own color, ”cruel” green. The great value of the monastery is this original (of 1596) exterior and interior wall painting. Sucevita is the newest one of the Moldavian painted onasteries, becoming a "testament to the ancient Moldavian art". It is part of the UNESCO cultural heritage. At Sucevita, mural painting is defined as an ample biblical narrative with scenes from the Old and New Testaments. There is much to say about the value and greatness of mural painting, but not here. In the tomb room there are the graves of the Moldavian voivodes, Jeremia Movila and Simion Movila, covered with beautifully decorated funerary gravestones of marble. The walls of the monastery, have the height of 6 m and the 3 m wide, with a guard road, outlining an almost square yard with a 100 m side. Inside the monastery there are several cells and rooms of the old ruler house, some of them being transformed into a museum that houses high value exhibits. Mănăstirea Sucevița a fost construită la sfârșitul secolului al XVI-lea de către familia Movileștilor, familie de mari boieri, clerici și chiar domnitori în Moldova, dar și în Țara Românească. Ctitorul inițiator este mitropolitul Moldovei, Gheorghe Movilă. Biserica construită în anii 1582-1584, continuă tradiția isihastă a acestor locuri rămasă de la urmașii Sfântului Daniil Sihastrul. Biserica fost construită în stil arhitectonic moldovenesc rămas de pe vremea lui Ștefan cel Mare și anume sub formă de cruce cu abside circulare. Zece ani mai târziu, Ieremia Movilă, domn al Moldovei, aduce mari completări așezământului construind zidurile groase și înalte străjuite de patru turnuri la colțuri și un turn cu paraclis deasupra intrării, construiește casa domnească, adaugă două mici pridvoare deschise deoparte și de alta a pridvorului închis și apoi pictează biserica interior și exterior. Mănăstirea are aspect de fortăreață, adăpostind mari c