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Dragomirna

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Laici’s Mud-Splashed Car

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Our Apartment - Small but Fine

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Maria and the Christ Child Watching Over Us at Night

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Cosmin, Ana & Bogdan On the Way to the Monastery

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The fortress surrounding the cathedral is 15 feet thick.

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What a View

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Inside the Catheral at Dragormirna Monastery

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On the Wall of the Fortress Surrounding the Cathedral

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Side View

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Before I talk about the Dragormirna Monastery, I should briefly explain a wild goose chase that ended in Laici’s car looking like it does in the picture to the left. It was late the day before when we decided to head to Dragormirna and no one really knew the way. Our GPS systems sent us left on a muddy country road when we should have gone straight. Bogdan’s Mercedes made it through the fields with a lot of praying and cussing, but Laici’s car got stuck in a deep mud rut only 200 meters away from an asphalt highway - the one we should have been on in the first place.

After a lot of pushing and shoving and rocking and socking and fussing and cussing, we gave up - totally splattered with mud - and called a company to help get us out. For them it was easy, but you can imagine the look on the faces of the nuns at the convent when we arrived.  By the way, those are the apartments in the wooden house behind the car. Not bad for 10 € per night.

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Our Apartments - Behind the Car

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Our Apartment - Simple and Free of House Mite Dust

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Cosmin and Ana at Breakfast

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Impressive Even from a Distance

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The entrance to the fortress is decorated with
2 angels and Jesus Christ in the center.

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Inside the Amazing Fortress Walls

Of all the monasteries we visited, I found this one the most interesting - not the most beautiful (Voronet) - but the most interesting. The artwork carved into the stone and the fortress walls that surround the church were extremely impressive.

The Dragomirna Monastery was built during the first three decades of the 17th century, 15 km from Suceava, in Mitocu Dragomirnei community. It is the tallest medieval monastery in Bucovina and renowned in Orthodox architecture for its unique proportions and intricate details, mostly carved into stone. It lies among forested hills of fir and oak. The history of the monastery started in 1602, when the small church in the graveyard was built and dedicated to Saints Enoch, Elijah and John the Theologian. In 1609 the dedication of the larger church was made to the "Descent of the Holy Spirit".

Das Kloster Dragomirna (auf Rumänisch Mănăstirea Dragomirna) liegt in Rumänien rund 15 Kilometer nördlich der Stadt Suceava in der Nähe des Dorfes Dragomirna. Gegründet wurde dieses durch den Metropoliten der Moldau und Bischof Anastasie Crimca, der nach einem ersten kleinen Komplex in der Zeit von 1602 bis 1609 die heutigen Bauten errichten ließ.

Umgeben ist das Kloster von 10 m hohen und 2 m breiten Mauern, die zum Schutz gegen Eroberer errichtet und 1627 fertiggestellt wurden. Die 42 m hohe und 9,60 m lange Kirche des Klosters weist romanische, gotische und orientalisierende Stilelemente auf. Ihr Inneres offenbart Wandmalereien in einem miniaturartigen Stil, der auf den Einfluss des Stifters Crimca, der auch Miniaturmaler war, zurückzuführen ist. Im zugehörigen Museum sind religiöse Gegenstände, Pretiosen, wertvolle Handschriften, Ikonen sowie kostbare Miniaturen aus der Sammlung des Klosters ausgestellt. Derzeit wird das Kloster mit EU-Fördermitteln restauriert.  Aus Wikipedia.

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The Cathedral is only 30 Feet Wide

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Artwork in Stone

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