Rădăuți - the village of wisdom

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes." -Marcel Proust

"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."-Robert Louis Stevenson

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."(Saint Augustine)

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller

". . .life is short and the world is wide" -Simon Raven

"Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'" -Lisa St.Aubin de Teran

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost" -J.R.R.Tolkien "Lord of the Rings"

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware." -Martin Buber

"I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter." -Susan M. Watkins

"A good traveller has no fixed plan and is not intent on arriving." -Lao Tzu

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears." -Glenn Clark

"He who does not travel does not know the value of men." -Moorish proverb

Suceava county

A legendary land… This is the Suceava county for the visitors of this part of Romania, known as Bucovina, a place where history is all around. A birthplace of an old civilization, the Suceava county is situated in the North-Eastern part of Romania and on the first places concerning the surface, number of inhabitants, and economic, tourist and human potential.

The relief is a mountainous and hilly one, with wonderful landscapes, with a dense hydrographic network, fast waters flow on sunny valleys. The hundred thousand tourists who visit yearly this county is explained by its geographic position at a cross of roads between North and South, East and West, its neighborhood with Ukraine, Poland, Republic of Moldova as well as to its wonderful landscapes, numberless cultural and historic monuments and artistic and folk life. A specific feature of this county is that on a not big surface there is a great number of tourist attractions. There are here good facilities for the summer and winter sports, for hunting and fishing, as well as for rest in large oasis of calm.

The mountains of Suceava have natural , varied and attractive places. A wonderful route is the one to the Calimani volcanic massif (Pietrosul Calimanilor - 2102 m above sea level), or to the Giumalau and Rarau massive, the last one being known for its karst relief. Some wonderful landscapes are offered by the narrow pathes of the Bistrita Aurie River, Upper Valley of Moldova and Suceava Rivers. This county has large natural reservations of flora and fauna (stag, roebuck, bear, wild boar, capercaillie, lynx). There are numberless landscapes which can be compared with the ones from Switzerland, France, Austria, Italy, Germany, Spain.The ecological value and proverbial hospitality of people create good conditions to integrate this Dornele zone into the world net of mountain values. Among the 35 natural monuments and natural reservations, the century-old forests from Slatioara (600 ha with spruce fir trees which are over 400 years old) offers a remarkable view of the pure nature.

Among the vestiges perfectly integrated into the nature, a special mention has to be done in connection with the painted monuments which are included by the Unesco among the masterprices of the world art. Also the International Federation of Tourism Journalists and Writers (FIJET) awarded the Pommes D’Or international Prize in 1975 to this zone known now all over the world. Among these monuments, the Voronet Monastery (1488) is shinning like a sapphire. At little distances one to another, there are reknown medieval orthodox foundations: Humor (1530), Moldovila (1532), Sucevita (1584) Monasteries visited by art and beauty lovers. Also here they are the Dragomirna Monastery (1609), an embroidery in stone, the Putna Monastery (1469) built by great Voivode Stefan cel Mare, this being also his grave. Other monasteries of a great historic and orthodox value are the ones situated in the Stanisoara area: Slatina, Rasca and Pobota Monasteries. The municipality of Suceava, the capital city of this county gathers about all creative and productive fields of activity which put into account the rich economic resources of Bucovina.