Road to Gura Humorului

The road from Bucharest to Gura Humorului has no highway but is an express road with a lane and a half, crowded, especially between Bucharest and Bacau. After Bacau, the road becomes freer and after passing Roman it is really beautiful and picturesque. On the way, there are enough gas stations and places where you can stop or dine.

Lunch Break at Hanul Ancutei

Hanu Ancutei – “May it remain an enchanted place for travelers from all over the world.” (quote from the food menu at Hanu Ancutei)

Accommodation

4 nights

Valentina Pension – Manastirea Humor

Putna Monastery + Putna Museum (1 hour)

According to legend, this place was decided by Stephen the Great after shooting an arrow from the top of the hill located near the monastery. The building was erected on the ground where the arrow hit.

Visit Marelbo (shoe manufacturer) (15 min)

The Romanian footwear manufacturer has 60 stores and a factory in Suceava. The factory store is considered a point of attraction due to the factory prices.

Sucevita Monastery (30 min)

High walls and heavily buttressed defensive towers surround the great monastic complex of Sucevita, giving it the appearance of a fortress. Sucevita boasts a magnificent depiction of the Ladder to Paradise.

Black ceramics from Marginea + Shopping (30 min)

In a village in Bucovina, called Marginea, there is a treasure hidden in the hands of potters. The treasure is their skill in creating black ceramic vessels of great beauty. The craft of creating black ceramic pots is special and not very common.

Lunch at the Restaurant Potter’s House Marginea (1 hour)

Delicious food, friendly service. You can have a relaxed meal after visiting the pottery.

The restaurant is in front of the ceramic atelier where they make black pottery.

Suceava Fortress (1 hour)

Legend has it that Stephen the Great built, under Suceava Medieval Fortress, a tunnel that ends somewhere near the Church of St. Dumitru in Suceava.

Bucovina Village Museum (1 hour and 30 min)

Lunch at the restaurant in the parking lot (1 hour)

Dragomirna Monastery (30 min)

The Dragomirna Monastery was built in 1602 in Mitocu Dragomirnei village, in Suceava County, by Anastasie Crimca of Moldova.

Cacica mine, Cacica (2 hours)

Arbore Monastery (15 min)

The church bears the commemorative plaque dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Arbore Monastery is one of the Painted Monasteries in Moldova.

Radauti (2 hours)
Lunch at Radauti (1 hour)

Moldovita Monastery + Moldovita Museum (30 min)

On the outside walls of Moldovita monastery, visitors can admire historical scenes, religious or cultural.

Vatra Dornei (30 min)

Poiana Stampei Peat Bog (Tinovul Mare) (1 Hour)

Walk on a wooden bridge in a fairytale swamp forest in Poiana Stampei, Romania. The peat bog is a swamp, an area where the groundwater reaches the surface and a specific flora is formed, consisting largely of moss.

Voronet Monastery (30 min)

Voronet Monastery azure blue is the dominant color, made with crushed azurite mixed with a mysterious substance that makes the hue lighter, more vivid. The color composition remains a mystery. 

Folk Traditions Museum of Bucovina (30 min)

Humor Monastery (30 min)

Humor Monastery was one of the first of Moldavia’s painted monasteries and, along with Voronet, is probably the best-preserved.

Accommodation in Targu Neamt

Armonia by Aristocratis

2 nights

Ion Creanga Memorial House and Museum (30 min)

Agapia Monastery + Agapia Museum (1 Hour)

Agapia Monastery is famous due to its interior frescoes painted by the great Romanian painter Nicolae Grigorescu.

Vivant Museum (15 min)

Alexandru Vlahuta Memorial House (15 min)

Varatec Monastery + Museum (15 min)

Varatec Monastery is the largest nunnery in Romania, currently having about 400 nuns.

Veronica Micle’s Tomb (15 min) + The “Saint John the Baptist” church – dating from 1844

Veronica Micle is famous because she was in love with the greatest Romanian poet, Mihai Eminescu.

Neamt Monastery (30 min)

In Neamt Monastery there is a miracle-working icon of the Virgin Mary painted in 665 in Israel. The settlement has the largest and oldest monastery library (18,000 volumes).

Neamt Citadel (1 hour)

Find out the legends, the mystery and the secrets that surround this fabulous medieval fortress.

The Church from Borzesti (15 min)

We stop in Borzesti to visit the homeland of Stephen the Great

The Bridge from Borzesti (15 min)

Legend has it that Stephen the Great built this bridge. The bridge is not a properly marked tourist attraction. Access to it is from the main street, crossing the railway and driving on a dirt road next near the railway. After the monument on the left that is not important, you will reach the bridge. You can go down to the valley to admire the bridge.