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Petru Voda Monastery

Located in a beautiful glade in the mountains Stânişoarei, Petru Voda Monastery is one of the important centers of pilgrimage in the post-revolutionary Romania. It was founded in 1991, first as a hermitage by Father Iustin Pârvu, confessor and the first abbot of the famous monastic settlement, together with two monks disciples who accompanied him.
The church was built on a concrete foundation, and in 1992 were able to officiate religious services. Fame of the founder father went to the four horizons, thus that quickly, the congregation gathered around him. In 1993 the buildings …

Neamţ County Pilgrimages »

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Pilgrimage to the Neamt monasteries: from Roman, through Targu Neamt, at Durău

Neamt County is the blessed place in which arose monastic places representing as many treasures of monastic life dedicated to God. Our pilgrimage can start from the first church of the Roman Diocese, which was dedicated to the Holy Friday, built by the father of Alexander the Good, Roman Voda from which It shall be taken the name the town too, today the Roman city. Back then housed royal bones and was therefore chosen to be bishop’s residence since that time. Petru Rares ascended on the church emplacement a new church dedicated …

Churches »

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Catholic Churches in Neamt

Historical documents certify the existence of Catholics in Moldova as early as the thirteenth century, when Dominican monks Christianize the Cumans seated on these lands. In the centuries that followed, many Catholics have migrated to Moldova from Transylvania, so in 1884 is founded the Roman Catholic Diocese of Iasi.
In Neamt there is a large Roman Catholic community, especially in the eastern part of the county: the Roman Deanship has 18 parishes, and some churches have a history of over a century. Let`s visit at a time, the oldest of them.
The Roman Catholic …

Museums »

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Nicolae Popa Ethnographic Museum from Târpeşti

In the village Târpeşti, Petricani commune, Neamt County is one of the most beautiful and interesting museums in Moldova. Nicolae Popa, the creator of the museum, known as a craftsman, artist, exceptional collector, writer, learned as a child to make masks for the New Year, and later, to carve in stone (hone) and to wood carve faces of people with original appearance. His works have participated in exhibitions both at home and also in major cities worldwide from Italy, Poland, Yugoslavia, France, Switzerland, Argentina, USA, Mexico, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Mongolia, China, …

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Almaş Monastery

In Gârcina Commune, Neamt County, on main DN15C highway (Piatra Neamt – Targu Neamt) is made at a given moment a road to the left (DN146). Going this way we will find out, in a clearing from the foot of the forest, Almas Monastery. It has an ancient history that begins from 1659 when a family of shepherds from Hateg named Almas, loving of God Orthodox Christian, runaway from Transylvania out of the way of Hungarian oppression, founded with the help of yeoman from these places, a hermitage dedicated to Saint …

Neamţ County Pilgrimages »

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Pilgrimages in Neamt: old monasteries – hearths of faith

      We propose to make a pilgrimage on a sunny week end at some monasteries, historical monuments laid on the right and left of the road DN15-Bicaz Piatra Neamt. Let’s get from Piatra Neamt to Bistrita Monastery (7-8 km), one of the oldest and most important monastic settlements of Moldova with three founders, great voivodes: Alexander the Good, Stephen the Great and Petru Rares.
Located in the hills with mixed forests and orchards of apples, nuts, and cherry trees, the monastery welcomes us with its ancient walls among whom is raised …

Lakes in Neamţ County »

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Lake Izvorul Muntelui – the sea between mountains

Yes, The Lake Izvorul Muntelui is the Sea between the mountains. Imagine a mirror of water with a length of about 35 km, an area of ​​about 32 square kilometers, deployed behind a dam high over 120 m. The dock built near the dam (Bicaz Port Naval Touristic Complex) is where the recreational races on the lake, starts. In the port exists a floating hotel, accommodation cottages and also a floating terrace to serve fish dishes and moldovan specific cuisine. If we came with friends and we want to take a ride on …