The arts are the soul of a nation, the flowers that are coming out through the vegetation of the earth coloring its glades over which she is the maaster. Folk artists are those who are building and leading on the traditional crafts heritage in a land like ours. Member of the Association of Craftsmen of Moldova, Cecilia Haisan is the artisan who learned the art of glass painting at the School of Arts in Piatra Neamt, under the guidance of plastic artist Doina Daschievici.
Soon she became famous with his works displayed at …

Neamt County exerts a permanent attraction by the beauty of natural landscapes, especially mountains where wild animals have their paths through forests colored by seasons and are reflected in chain of lakes built on the Bistrita or  Lake Cuiejdel, a natural dam lake. Lake Izvorul Muntelui, Lake Pângăraţi, Lake Vaduri, Lake Bâtca Doamnei, and Lake Reconstructia are housing fish species such as barbel (with fleshy lips), chub (with broad forehead), broad snout (“black guts”), livid barbell (with yellow mustaches), roach ( with small mouth), trout (indigenous, of lake and rainbow), …

Artisan Constantin Lungu, president of the Association of Craftsmen in Neamt County, has the workshop in Humuleşti near Targu Neamt. Specialized in wood carving, he works sticks, sheepfold rods and clubs, hatchets of elderberry wood and hazel wood, some inlaid, some tin-plated at the end of which are carved various images of men depicting shepherds guarding their flocks of sheep. Alongside these, we discover in his workshop beautiful chests, crafted clad in tin foil in which are inlaid traditional symbols, the sun and the cross. Master confesses that realization of such objects …

Folk Art Festival Dowry Chest, event initiated since 2006 by Neamt County Council, City Hall and City Council Piatra Neamt, Neamt County Museum Complex, the Association of Craftsmen of Moldova, Neamt County Association of Craftsmen and Cultural Foundation Scientific Constantin Matasa, arrived, there!, at the tenth edition.
Festival aims to promote, build and sustain traditions and folk art creation in our country, as reflected by the purpose of the awards which are granted annually by organizersː Award for the Creation in Folk Art, Award for Promoting of Folk Art, offered by …

Located in a beautiful glade in the mountains Stânişoarei, Petru Voda Monastery is one of the important centers of pilgrimage in the post-revolutionary Romania. It was founded in 1991, first as a hermitage by Father Iustin Pârvu, confessor and the first abbot of the famous monastic settlement, together with two monks disciples who accompanied him.
The church was built on a concrete foundation, and in 1992 were able to officiate religious services. Fame of the founder father went to the four horizons, thus that quickly, the congregation gathered around him. In 1993 the buildings …

Neamt County is the blessed place in which arose monastic places representing as many treasures of monastic life dedicated to God. Our pilgrimage can start from the first church of the Roman Diocese, which was dedicated to the Holy Friday, built by the father of Alexander the Good, Roman Voda from which It shall be taken the name the town too, today the Roman city. Back then housed royal bones and was therefore chosen to be bishop’s residence since that time. Petru Rares ascended on the church emplacement a new church dedicated …

Historical documents certify the existence of Catholics in Moldova as early as the thirteenth century, when Dominican monks Christianize the Cumans seated on these lands. In the centuries that followed, many Catholics have migrated to Moldova from Transylvania, so in 1884 is founded the Roman Catholic Diocese of Iasi.
In Neamt there is a large Roman Catholic community, especially in the eastern part of the county: the Roman Deanship has 18 parishes, and some churches have a history of over a century. Let`s visit at a time, the oldest of them.
The Roman Catholic …