No mountain in Romania has ever charmed the trekkers’ sight stronger or excited their imagination as Mount Ceahlău has…
This majestic dome of the Oriental Carpathians and of the entire Moldavian land, with its aura of the millennia-old geological turmoil that pushed it majestically and proudly from the bottom of the ocean has been blessed with centuries of people stopping for a while in its clearings, grottos and its pastures to hunt, pray, and graze their sheep.
Looking from the surrounding area or from Ceahlău’s peaks, the eye has always rejoiced at …

The Izvorul Muntelui Reservoir – the largest and the only one in the Romania where people celebrate “Navy Day”– can reach a maximum area of 32.6 square kilometres and a 96m depth. The reservoir can house up to 1,250 million cubic metres of water and usually stretches on some 35 kilometres, mainly at the foot of Mount Ceahlău.
The reservoir was built behind the impressive dam erected on the Bistrita River between 1950 and 1960 according to the design of the engineer Dimitrie Leonida. The dimensions of the dam, a “weight …

Coming from Bacau, along the Bistriţa River, when you reach Roznov, we advise you to turn left towards the century-old forests in the Tazlău Valley. You will find here a village with houses with carved porches and pillars. In the centre of the village, the Tazlău Monastery – commissioned by Ştefan cel Mare – stands white. Then, head for Războieni Monastery also commissioned by the Prince, erected on the site of the bloody battle in the White Valley. Then drive among the gently sloping hills, down to the plain, to …

When you reach the Bicaz Gorges, you wonder whether you are dreaming or awake and you can barely grasp the big rocks thrown on the road, which, should you climb them, you would reach the skies. Then, immediately after descending along the creek, towards Neamţ, you find other gorges, other stone giants, with caves and other tales, other stories. Should you think there is nothing else that could charm you after all you have just seen, you should know that only the excitement is just beginning: now, when the path …

When you think you saw, heard, and felt all that the sweet town of Piatra has to offer, you start going upstream the Bistriţa River, towards the mountains, through settlements commissioned by princes and high priests, artists, or local people, you see households, pastures and scattered sheep, hills with thick forests, you reach the great wall hiding the mountain sea, and you go on its shores, in a breath-taking scenery, and then cross the long bridge at Poiana Largului and quicken your steps to see log work, icons and altars, …

First, you knock at the gates of the Neamţ Fortress and go back in time, among boyars, princesses, and frontier guards. Next, you go downtown and head straight to old churches, as thriving in the past as they are now, and enjoy the fresh air and monastic silence. Then, you remember how a European bison looks like or you see it now for the first time, you drive through mountain villages with houses old and new, you make a detour to see where Father Iustin served at Petru Voda Monastery, …

Wherever you come from, Traveller, you are invited to visit this blessed land of Neamt where you can have experiences unknown so far. You can rise to the heights of the Holy Mount Ceahlău, or rule for a moment over the land stretching at your feet far to the horizon and recharge with the force and spell contained in each and every rock. You can also listen to the murmur of the rapids carrying the legends of the Bistrita River through mountains and hills, down to the plains. Furthermore, you …