The village is the most precious heritage bestowed to Neamţ locals. Sources of wisdom, of craft and of energy, it is the place where we can find our inner peace, go back to nature, and return to our ancestors. It is a place where we escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, where life has a different pace, even a different meaning, where nature, people, and animals live together peacefully as they all speak the same word, where everything is more vivid and more intense. Here, thoughts come …

Commissioned by Petru Rareş and his son Ilaş, the complex is enlisted as a monument of religious architecture. In its five-century-old history is has been established as an important cultural centre of the area. The ornamentation of the facades was modified in the 17th century. The doors and windows mostly keep the Gothic frames, while the main door frame was designed in Renaissance style, in the form of a curved arch. The iconostasis, executed at the beginning of the 19th century, impresses with its rich sculptural motifs. The unique icon …

“Forty-feet tall, set on a round foundation, cut to size, many travellers like me upon their first journey will take it, from afar, for a daring building that has been here for ages. But when you look at its location in the flat area, 500 steps far for any height, with its cracks filled with yellowish moss by the elements, you find yourself speechless and small in front of the majestic giant; it seems that your eyes set on one of the rock the titans dropped. Thirty feet form the …

Awe-inspiring by the majestic and harmonious ensemble, Ceahlău Massif has all the necessary data of a natural stronghold. Or, as the poet’s memorably engraved these words over a century ago, the metaphorical aspect of a “giant with his forehead facing the sun, standing there to protect his fatherland.” (G. Coşbuc).
A fabulous life, with its roots in the Palaeolithic -the oldest age in human history, also known as the Stone Age- and its head in centuries of Christian faith, the legendary Kogaion (the Dacians’ sacred mountain and temple of Zalmoxis, the …

The acclimatization enclosure for bisons, which spreads on a total surface of about 445 acre, is a mosaic of forest and open areas, where various observation facilities for visitors (pavilions, suspended walkway, thematic route, observatories) are established.
“Bison Land” in Neamţ, internationally renowned destination, has been included in Top 100 Sustainable Destinations worldwide, a global contest organized by Green Destinations in partnership with other 20 international organizations working in the field of sustainable tourism.

Born from people’s ability to perceive and appreciate cultural and natural values, the folk art in Neamţ area expresses the peasants’ outlook and sensitivity, their aesthetic beliefs and their artistic refinement.
Maintaining a conservative character, by means of rules and canons kept in community awareness, the villagers have passed on down the generations the encoded and extremely rich language of folk art. The simple shapes and the balanced proportions, the sensible layout and decorations, the geometrical style of representations, the discrete and harmonious colours always impress the beholder.