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Caught between East and West, a Latin enclave surrounded by Slavs and Magyars, Romania suffered a devastating cold-war period yet remains a land of astonishing richness and beauty. We cannot forget Romania's desperate struggle to recover from disaster, but we can perhaps draw encouragement from the continued survival of her natural beauty and amazing architectural heritage. Greatest amongst her treasured buildings are the painted monasteries of Bucovina, which remain virtually unknown outside their own country yet stand unrivalled anywhere else on earth.

Located on the northern border of Romania, Bucovina, part of the old province of Moldavia, is a mountainous region whose peaks and forests of beech and pine shelter gently sloping valleys. Here, during the short period of a quarter of a century, between 1522 and 1547, a group of churches sprang up, frescoed with a liberality and magnificence unparalleled in any other country.
The painting of religious murals was widely practiced throughout the Orthodox Church, for the edification of the illiterate faithful who flocked to church on feast days, but here in Romania it achieved its finest flowering. The painted monasteries are covered within and without in vivid, minutely detailed frescoes whose colors remain fresh and strong. They have been compared to Persian carpets or to jewels set in cases of green grass and flowers within their severe enclosures.
That they have survived to this day, despite the passage of time, wars, invasions, and the vandalism of rival religions or ideologies, is little short of miraculous.

Art of the Fresco: Romania's Painted Monasteries