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Summer camps with interactive activities at Durău Mountain Resort
Surely, an unforgettable holiday!
Located in a sunny clearing in the North-West of Ceahlău Mountain at 820 m altitude, Durău Resort is famous for the summer camps organized here, every year. The most interesting fact is that camps not only offer mountain hikes and sightseeing tours, but also a large number of interactive activities including sports, theatre, dance, visual arts, gardening, architecture, photography, film, experimental labs for kids, modeling, workshops for the development of handicraft skills, equitation, team games, treasure hunting, karaoke, exercises …
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Ceahlău Massif – “a giant who’s forehead is caressed by the sun”
A view of ”the Enchanted mountain”
“The giant immersed in the rays of the sun” as described in the famous poem “Summer” by George Coşbuc, Ceahlău Mountain is a very special place which many Romanian and foreign writers have spoken about. This “gemstone” of Moldavia, as Dimitrie Cantemir called it in his famous Latin writing “Descriptio Moldaviae” from 1716, Ceahlău Mountain is situated in the middle of the Oriental Carpathians, in the western part of Neamţ County, at the crossroad …
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On weekend, Neamt Fortress celebrates the medieval feast
Tirgu Neamț town is preparing for a great medieval celebration. On weekend, from Friday till Sunday, Neamţ Fortress awaits visitors from all around the country for a new edition of the Medieval Festival “Days of Neamţ Fortress”. Now in its 18th edition, the event will include an extremely diverse program: from medieval music performances, combat demonstrations in clothing of the epoch and parades with princesses and knights in medieval musical accords to folk art exhibitions, a popular culinary festival – “The Enchanted Pot” …
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Coming to Neamţ from Suceava
The northern part of Neamţ County is full of touristic attractions that thousands of tourists, from all over the world, come to visit every year. The objectives impresses through their beauty and historical significance.
When you arrive in Tîrgu Neamţ, you must not miss visiting Neamţ Fortress, a medieval monument of exceptional value, aged more than 600 years old, initially built by Peter I Muşat, then expanded and consolidated by Stephen the Great. Here important pages of heroism were written, to mention just a few: the resistance …
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Neamţ Fortress
A watchtower over River Neamţ valley, built under the rule of Petru I Muşat, the voivode whose main interest was to resist the Ottoman invasions. During the first stage of the fortress, a central fort was built protected by 12m-high and 2-3m-thickwalls. There was also a fountain in the centre of the premises. Later on, Stephen the Great extended and consolidated the entire fortification by adding a new belt of walls and four semi-circular defence tours. He also commissioned the increase of the wall height, the defence moat, the …
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Address: Str. Arcasului nr.1, Targu Neamt, Neamt County
Built: in time of ruler Petru Musat (1374-1391)
Visiting program: Daily: 9-19
Short description
Among the most representative historical monuments from Romania we find the fortress of Neamt, an objective situated in the city of Tg. Neamt in the subcarpathian zone of Moldavia.
Issued from the local society`s necessities, the fortress of Neamt was built in the period of consolidation of the Romanian medieval state on the east side of Carpathians. Along the centuries, the history of the fortress has been tidily combined with the history of …