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The monastery of Humor is up the Humor River, near the town of Gura Humorului, among wooded hills. The church was built of massive blocks of stone, decorated outside with enamelled ceramic discs and painted inside, as fragments of paint recovered by archaeologists show. During the XVth century, Humor was among the most important monasteries in the country and was partially ruined during the 3rd decade of the XVIth century. The Moldavian ruler, Petru Rareş started to rebuild it and Prince Vasile Lupu fortified the monastery in 1641. Together with six other churches with frescoes painted on the exterior walls, the church of Humor was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
