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Erected at the end of the 14th century, close to the medieval town of Suceava, the Princely Court of Suceava was, for almost 200 years, the main residence of Moldovian rulers. Constantin Emil Ursu, the head of the Bukovina National Museum, tells us more about the history of this fortress, which goes down in history as never conquered: ”The eastern part of Romania, was, until 1859, a state of its own, a principality set up in the 14th century in north-eastern Romania. The Suceava Princely Curt was the emblematic seat of the Moldavian rulers. Apart from being a fortress and having a defensive purpose, the court also housed the Romanian state treasury. It was first mentioned by documents in 1388, during the rule of Petre I Musat, in a letter to the Polish King, by which Moldavia lent Poland more than 3,000 silver coins, today the equivalent of 50 kilograms of gold. ”
The Princely Court was built in several stages, as Consantin Emil Ursu tells us: &rdqu