Radowce is one of the most important cities of Bukovina. They were the seat of the first ruler of these lands, Bogdan I, and have preserved many monuments to this day, including the 14th century monastery and the church of St. Nicholas.
Although the first mentions of Radowce come from the end of the 14th century, it is known that the settlement existed here much earlier. It was a significant point on the Black Sea trade route, and in the second half of the 14th century, the first Moldavian hospodar, Bogdan I, located his seat here. He built the Bogdan Monastery with a stone church of St. Nicholas. It was the burial place of members of the princely family. Today, a monumental statue of Bogdan I stands next to the temple.
Bogdan's descendants moved the seat of the rulers to Seret, and then to Suceava, but the city did not lose its weight and remained one of the most important centers of Bukovina until World War I. During the Austrian rule, numerous tenement houses and public buildings were erected and can still be seen today. One of them houses the Samuil and Eugenia Ionet Ethnographic Museum .
In the past, Radowce was a multicultural town where Romanians, Germans, Poles, Jews and Hungarians lived side by side. In addition to the Bogdan Monastery, the Radowców attractions include the richly decorated Great Synagogue, the late Baroque Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Spirit .
The city also has a small zoo with mostly temperate animals, but also monkeys and antelopes.
