The period before Easter is a true school of repentance for Orthodox believers. It is a sensitive period when many Christians manifest their belief by going on pilgrimages to monasteries. The monasteries from Neamt County are visited in this period of time by so many pilgrims that come here in search of peace.
Monasteries are places of high spiritual values that offer food for the soul to pilgrims. A journey in Neamt County will offer you the possibility to visit these famous monasteries and to admire the religious Moldavia architecture.
Each monastery …

Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 16:00 at “Lascar Vorel” Art Galleries from Piatra Neamt will take place the opening of the exhibition organized by the artist Cristinel Ionel Prisecaru. This is his fifth personal exhibition and contains byzantine paintings, especially religious icons painted on wood and canvas.
The exhibition was created for the Easter holiday and the 25 icons exhibited were created in the last five years. The paintings express the equilibrium of composition and are created by using different techniques: tempera on canvas and wood, acrylic on canvas and mosaic. …

Between March 15 and 18 2012, Neamt County Council participates at the XXVII edition of the Romanian Touristic Fair. The event will take place at the Romexpo building in Bucharest where the stand of Neamt County has over 120 square meters.
The stand of Neamt County was created through the project “Promotion campaign for tourism in Neamt County through fairs and national exhibitions”. The results of this project also consist in a touristic guide and a touristic map of the county, brochures, dvds, invitations and other promoting materials.
Neamt County also presents …

With a great history behind, Ceahlau Massif offers to tourists unforgettable experiences. For those that love hiking there are 7 well marked touristic routes that will take your footsteps near interesting shaped rocks famous for their legends.
The top of Ceahlau Mountain represents the place where you realize that your effort was worth it. The top of the mountain is in the shape of a plane of 6 km long and over 1 km wide. Between Ocolasul Mare Peak and Toaca Peak there are few other smaller peaks like “Batca lui …

At Sihastria Monastery, near the cemetery there is a wooden church of great artistic and architectural value that impresses through the original way in which the craftsmen created the ornaments. The church of the cemetery was built at the initiative of Abbot Victorin Oanele.
In the beginning of the year 1988 the abbot of Sihastria Monastery decided to move a church from Hlapesti village, Neamt County to Sihastria. The church dated from the XVIII century and being made out of wood was in poor conditions. That is why, in the end, …

Between March 1 and 15 2012 at the art galleries Lascar Vorel from Piatra Neamt will be the exhibition “Atuportret” (“Self-portrait”) of the painter Stefan Potop. The opening of the exhibition will take place on March 1st at 17:00 by the writer and art critic Lucian Strochi.
The exhibition contains 23 paintings that represent self-portraits created in an original fashion. The paintings are created using the same well known technique of the painter that impresses with the precision of the execution.
The artistic creations exhibited represent 35 years of work from the …

The celebration of martisor represents for people in Neamt County a 2000 years old tradition. Together with this symbol of spring people also offer spring flowers like snowdrops.
Martisor is a small ornament tied with a white and red string that appears in Romanian tradition. The red signifies the love for everything that is beautiful and white represents the health and purity of the snowdrop, the first flower of spring. Women and girls receive this symbol of spring, martisor and wear it the entire March month.
Although there are numerous traditions related …