On the last day of the year, the procession of customs and traditions will fill the central streets of Târgu-Neamț.
The parades of costumes, masks, New Year’s wishes, a real carnival loved by the Neamț locals and of great impact for tourists both from Romania and abroad. The festival has reached its ninth edition this year. It is the show that gains, every year, an even greater magnitude, reaching even larger audience because it’s all about preserving and passing on the ancestral traditions, specificity of places and people.
Tomorrow, December 31, 2021, starting …

Learned by doing over centuries and often connected to faith, customs, which deeply penetrated the collective consciousness, are still observed today in Neamţ villages. Customs have been strongly preserved owing to their value that stood the test of time, and have been accepted by the entire community.
Children or young people that go caroling singing, the Star songs and the theater on religious themes are part of the performances that take place at the Christmas Market in Neamț. The New Year is greeted with Plugușorul, the ox, the bells and even the plough pulled …

The beauty of Neamț County, various locations and poses captured during the autumn season, flooded the social media with color and delight.
 
“Impaired Poplars”, “Silver Forest”, “Copper Forests”, famous Eminescu phrases that determined – a one of a kind thing in the world! – the creation of precisely delimited natural reserves. (Neamț County – Monography, PANTEON Publishing House, Piatra Neamț, 1995)
 
     One of the most beautiful intermountain depressions, at the border of the Eastern Carpathians, Piatra Neamţ Town is located at the confluence of two rivers, Cuejdiu and Bistrita and is surrounded …

These days, the actors from the Youth Theater are in the middle of rehearsals for “A Lost Letter” („O scrisoare pierdută”), a good opportunity for a documentary research.
 In the footsteps of Caragiale in Piatra Neamț
In the image is that theater, immortalized in the interwar period, in a card from the collection of the “GT Kirileanu” County Library.
As the biography source indicates, a first record of his arrival in our city refers to the period October 1881- February 1882, when the young Ion Luca Caragiale is a school inspector for Neamț …

Lake Cuejdel dressed up in autumn colors  
A series of autumn images, captured in the most photogenic location in Neamț County, takes you into a fairytale world!
Photo credit: Felicia ARON
Well hidden in the Stânișoara Mountains, also called Lacul Crucii (the Lake of the Cross), Lake Cuejdel, located in Gârcina commune, was declared a Natural Reserve in 2004, being also one of the largest natural dam lakes in the country.
Photo credit: Iulian RADU
The picturesque and spectacular Lake Cuejdel, perhaps the most “photogenic” landscape amongst all of them in Neamţ, has the …

Story places in Neamț, an endless joy in colorful images!
Because this autumn offers us a perfect show, a burst of color and beauty, because photography lovers have made public a series of impressive images from Neamț, because their love for these places is endless, we now have the opportunity to enjoy together this visual story series from Neamț.
 
 
Bicaz Gorges, dressed up in autumn colors
The “stone kingdom” of Bicaz Gorges is a place made of the most imposing limestone gorges in Europe and, at the same time, is one of the …