| Bucovina is a region of monasteries,
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| | because all the local tourist offices
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| unique in the world for their colorful
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| | were abolished. The travel agencies
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| exterior frescoes. Equally well worth the
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| | created by the private sector took over
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| visit are the villages, still leading the
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| | the role of the tourist information
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| traditional way of life, and the stunning
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| | offices. They can provide you with the
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| landscapes.
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| | information and services for organizing
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| The name Bucovina may not mean much to
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| | tours in Bucovina. Because Romanians
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| many people, but Bucovina, and its brave
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| | themselves increasingly prefer to travel
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| princes, played an important part in the
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| | outside Romania, the travel agencies are
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| history of the Balkans during the XV and
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| | more specialized in organizing
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| XVI centuries, and in particular with
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| | international travel. Local tours have
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| regard to relations with the Ottoman
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| | been neglected for many years but are now
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| Empire. The impressive number of churches
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| | flourishing again.
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| to be found there, with their fine
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| | The private sector is now the most
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| exterior and interior frescoes, have been
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| | advanced, and appreciated both inside and
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| preserved and handed down from mediaeval
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| | outside the country for the western level
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| times, and because of their uniqueness
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| | of comfort and services.
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| and artistic value, were added to
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| | Tourist information can also be found in
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| UNESCO's World Cultural Heritage List in
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| | the annual publication of the Romanian
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| 1993. There is, indeed, no other place in
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| | Yellow Pages. All bookshops sell travel
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| the world where such a group of churches,
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| | guides, but it is not so easy to find
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| with such high quality exterior frescoes,
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| | travel guides of Bucovina in the main
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| are to be seen.
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| | towns. An exception could be the
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| The churches were founded, in most cases,
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| | newspaper stores.
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| as family burial places of princes and
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| | Our travel guide: Bucovina - A Travel
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| high nobles. Each painter, although
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| | Guide to Romania's Region of Painted
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| following the canonical iconographic
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| | Monasteries is an excellent full-color
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| programme, interpreted the scenes in a
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| | book on a wide variety of cultural
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| slightly different way. The scenes were
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| | heritage subjects from mural paintings
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| first painted on the interior walls, and
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| | and archaeology to architecture and local
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| then extended to the exterior ones. The
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| | traditions. It also gives practical
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| reasons for such vast scenes were both
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| | information and tips on travel to and in
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| religious and didactic: to promote
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| | Romania, what to see, where to stay, what
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| Orthodoxy and to educate the illiterate.
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| | to buy and to eat, to get the most of
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| Tourist information in Romania: The
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| | Bucovina.
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| notion of "tourist information office"
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| | We hope that you will enjoy your travel
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| disappeared after the 1989 revolution
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| | to Bucovina!
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