At the Christmas Fair in Neamț, children have the opportunity to see the kind and gentle Santa every day, starting from 16:30, in his specially decorated house. The little ones will now have the opportunity to tell a poem, sing a carol or whisper a wish to Santa Claus. The joy of the meeting will be immortalized through a photo session, and the most enthusiastic visitors will be able to transform into their favorite characters, through the most-loved face paintings.
Photo gallery:
The fair in Neamț is, this year, like Santa’s bag of goodies, …

THE STORY OF SANTA CLAUS
Once upon a time there was a very generous old man, who loved to wander around the world and to give gifts. He had an enchanted small flock of flying reindeer. And there were Christmas presents, elves and fairies. And they all lived in a small village, which originally existed in Lapland-Finland.
Then Santa thought he needed a milder climate. So he decided to move to a new residence in Romania, in Moldavia, in the commune of Negrești, in Neamț County.
He seriously documented himself about the geography of the place. It is …

Christmas customs and traditions
 
Christmas is the first holiday during the New Year’s holiday season. In Romania, Christmas is celebrated according to the new calendar on December 25, and according to the old one, on January 7. 
There is no family in the countryside who does not prepare for Christmas.
During the Christmas holidays, the most beautiful custom of all is caroling. Carols are the songs with which children, young people or even adults greet the coming of Christ on Earth.        
The origin of the word carol is found in the Latin calendae. The name was given by the Romans to the pagan New Year holidays. At that time, the children of the Romans walked …

The beauty of Neamț County, various locations and poses captured during the autumn season, flooded the social media with color and delight.
 
“Impaired Poplars”, “Silver Forest”, “Copper Forests”, famous Eminescu phrases that determined – a one of a kind thing in the world! – the creation of precisely delimited natural reserves. (Neamț County – Monography, PANTEON Publishing House, Piatra Neamț, 1995)
 
     One of the most beautiful intermountain depressions, at the border of the Eastern Carpathians, Piatra Neamţ Town is located at the confluence of two rivers, Cuejdiu and Bistrita and is surrounded …

These days, the actors from the Youth Theater are in the middle of rehearsals for “A Lost Letter” („O scrisoare pierdută”), a good opportunity for a documentary research.
 In the footsteps of Caragiale in Piatra Neamț
In the image is that theater, immortalized in the interwar period, in a card from the collection of the “GT Kirileanu” County Library.
As the biography source indicates, a first record of his arrival in our city refers to the period October 1881- February 1882, when the young Ion Luca Caragiale is a school inspector for Neamț …

Lake Cuejdel dressed up in autumn colors  
A series of autumn images, captured in the most photogenic location in Neamț County, takes you into a fairytale world!
Photo credit: Felicia ARON
Well hidden in the Stânișoara Mountains, also called Lacul Crucii (the Lake of the Cross), Lake Cuejdel, located in Gârcina commune, was declared a Natural Reserve in 2004, being also one of the largest natural dam lakes in the country.
Photo credit: Iulian RADU
The picturesque and spectacular Lake Cuejdel, perhaps the most “photogenic” landscape amongst all of them in Neamţ, has the …