Hermitages, raised by monks – hermits, lovers of quiet, constrained to make cells or small chapels for prayer, often in isolated places and hard to break, sometimes through huge rocks, away from enemies and fire, represents an important part of the monastic establishments which have withstood the vicissitudes of time, becoming places around which grew the religious life of places where, hundreds of years ago, they were placed.
Such hermitages, arose first as cloisters, are around the massive Ceahlău, the Mount Athos of Romanians, some of them due to royal donations …

At only a few kilometers from the highway between Piatra and Targu Neamt, after you pass the village of Garcina, then Cuejdiu to Cracăul Negru, by step, among the colors of the deciduous forest, you reach Lake Cuejdel of waves that can be seen coming out like spears, hundreds of stumps of dry trees, reminding of Red Lake. Not long ago, the forest that was in these parts, now has been covered by water. As one of the largest natural dam lake, not only in the country but also in …

Located in the historic center of Piatra Neamt municipality, in the vicinity of the Musatin foundations, The Church Saint John and The Bell-Tower and other three museum institutions: The Art Museum, The Ethnography Museum and The Exhibition “Royal Court”, The Cucuteni eneolithic Art Museum was inaugurated in the year 2005 on June 24th,   the Day of Piatra Neamt Municipality.
Is the first Cucuteni Museum from Romania, that offers to visitors a comprehensive picture of decorative and figurative art, belonging to the most important eneolithic culture from south – east of Europe.
The …

Horaiţa Monastery can be reached by car walking on National Road 15 C, Piatra Neamt – Targu Neamt. At Dobreni, turn on an asphalt road, pre-signaled, and go through another 15 km on county road 156A, through Negreşti and Poiana. From Poiana, the road runs through a beautiful mixed forest of deciduous and coniferous
Also, you can reach the monastery from Crăcăoani, where there are only six kilometers on unpaved country road. Whatever path you choose, you’ll pass through a gate to the monastery and you come forward, or to step …

Horaiţa Monastery can be reached by car walking on National Road 15 C, Piatra Neamt – Targu Neamt. At Dobreni, turn on an asphalt road, pre-signaled, and go through another 15 km on county road 156A, through Negreşti and Poiana. From Poiana, the road runs through a beautiful mixed forest of deciduous and coniferous
Also, you can reach the monastery from Crăcăoani, where there are only six kilometers on unpaved country road. Whatever path you choose, you’ll pass through a gate to the monastery and you come forward, or to step …

Lungu Ionela craftsman, a professional engineer, is a founding member of the Association of Craftsmen in Neamt County, member of the Association of Moldova
Craftsmen based in Iasi and the National Association of Craftsmen from Romania.
We met at her studio in Neamt fortress surrounded by funny characters from the stories of Ion Creangă, working with thread to a scene from „Hoopoe from linden” on a sackcloth carpet.
With a natural talent inherited from parents and grandparents, she was borned in Tulcea, Ionela reached, by marrying with Costin Lungu, a renowned artisan, to …