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[12 Jun 2015 | No Comment | ]
Almaş Monastery

In Gârcina Commune, Neamt County, on main DN15C highway (Piatra Neamt – Targu Neamt) is made at a given moment a road to the left (DN146). Going this way we will find out, in a clearing from the foot of the forest, Almas Monastery. It has an ancient history that begins from 1659 when a family of shepherds from Hateg named Almas, loving of God Orthodox Christian, runaway from Transylvania out of the way of Hungarian oppression, founded with the help of yeoman from these places, a hermitage dedicated to Saint …

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[12 Jun 2015 | No Comment | ]
Ion Creangă Memorial House – always return to childhood

     
It is one of the most visited museums in Romania and we know why. Here was born and raised most beloved storyteller of Romanians, Ion Creangă. Inside of the two rooms of the house, stand as testimony the items mentioned in Childhood memories. We look at the chimney pole with rope look with tassel at the end, the hearth of the mantelpiece where Ionica leaned when he was learning to walk, the oven that he was hiding when he was playing peek-a-boo, as all are in place, even weaving and spinning tools …

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[12 Jun 2015 | No Comment | ]
Văratec Monastery

   It is recognized as the largest convent in Romania. We know that at Monastery Văratec are living over 400 nuns. The monastery was not based, as you might think, by princes, or by great counselors of the country, but through painstaking of the true believers, of the Mother Olympiada initiative. Although it was founded in 1785, only after more than 50 years (in 1839), it is known as an independent monastery. Stone walls that close the precinct where is the Church of the Assumption (1812) are constructed since 1808, ending up at 1850, …

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[30 Apr 2015 | No Comment | ]
Tonitza`s paintings from the Monastery Durău

                          Nicholae Tonitza, whom about Tudor Arghezi wrote “Tonitza is a word complex concentrated active; big in all components … . His suave brush say, think and sing … ” was born in Barlad on 13th of April, 1886. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Iasi, followed in Berlin the Bavarian Royal Academy of Fine Arts, then in Paris. Few know that Tonitza, best selling Romanian painter for 10 years (almost one million), was a painter of churches. In our …

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[30 Apr 2015 | No Comment | ]
The main exhibition of the Museum of History and Ethnography Targu Neamt

               The permanent exhibition at the Museum of History and Ethnography in Targu Neamt was founded in the way it looks today, in 1987, but was rebuilt, expanded and improved in successive stages by 2012. In the six rooms, three downstairs and three upstairs, exhibition, put in relief the life of the inhabitants of Ozana water from Eneolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, until the formation of the Romanian people and the contemporary feudal era. Visitors who pass the threshold of the museum will be surprised by …

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[15 Apr 2015 | No Comment | ]
Beneficial mineral water in Resort Bălţăteşti

Bălţăteşti resort, from the Bălţăteşti Commune, Neamt County is recognized because of mineral water springs, salt and mud in which the contents are significant amounts of calcium, sodium, chlorine, iron, magnesium, potassium, iodine, in proportions comparable to those of resorts of Europe West, Vichy, from France and Karlovy Vary from the Czech Republic. The resort is offering medical services of balneophysiotherapy and medical rehabilitation through acupuncture procedures, hydrokinetotherapy in the pool, physiotherapy in gym, aerosols and external balneary procedures for inflammatory rheumatic disorders, neurological, gynecological, respiratory system and neuroses, and climato- …