On the last day of the year, the procession of customs and traditions will fill the central streets of Târgu-Neamț.
The parades of costumes, masks, New Year’s wishes, a real carnival loved by the Neamț locals and of great impact for tourists both from Romania and abroad. The festival has reached its ninth edition this year. It is the show that gains, every year, an even greater magnitude, reaching even larger audience because it’s all about preserving and passing on the ancestral traditions, specificity of places and people.
Tomorrow, December 31, 2021, starting …

Learned by doing over centuries and often connected to faith, customs, which deeply penetrated the collective consciousness, are still observed today in Neamţ villages. Customs have been strongly preserved owing to their value that stood the test of time, and have been accepted by the entire community.
Children or young people that go caroling singing, the Star songs and the theater on religious themes are part of the performances that take place at the Christmas Market in Neamț. The New Year is greeted with Plugușorul, the ox, the bells and even the plough pulled …

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.
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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 …

 
“Wooden churches route”, awarded internationally, also includes the beautiful village treasures of Neamț.
The journey on the Transnational Cultural Tourist Route of the wooden churches in Romania and the Republic of Moldavia takes you back in time, through over hundreds of years of history and cultural events. Basically, on this route, you embark on an extensive process of discovering the essence of the community spirit, its artistic creativity and, why not, of your own soul.
Thus, along the entire route, on the surface of 16 counties in our country and 3 districts across the River …