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Culinary Traditions on Easter holidays

Every year the Easter Feast occasions perpetuation of food habits of housewives learned sacredly and with great pleasure by consumers. Travelers arrived during this period to one of the guest houses in our county will not be disappointed because they will be greeted by hosts welcoming guests with spring in the soul and the banquet table.
Prominently are pasca (traditional sweet bread made of yeast dough filled with cheese, raisins, cream, etc) and red eggs. Traditional Pasca is the round shape one made with curl stitching around and cross braided as in the …

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Agapia Monastery

Located between the mountains that carrying ancient forests and emphasizes the beauty of a place cherished with christian love, Agapia Monastery, one of the most famous in Moldova, is first mentioned in 1437. But because the land was subject to landslides, by the 1600s, the monks built another monastery, below, of granite stone, consecrated in 1647. The church is dedicated to the old church built by Petru Rares, Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel. Since 1803, the monastery receives community of nuns. Over time, the monastery, which “seems to sneak and hide in …

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Festival “Joy of Light” – ed VII Targu Neamt

Targu Neamt Local Council, City Hall and House of Culture from the city at the foot of Neamt Fortress, praising Easter Holidays, invites us to participate as spectators, of course, at the “Joy of Light” that will debut Monday, April 13th , first in locations provided by House of Culture, starting at 13.00.
The Festival program includes: Exhibition of paintings and hand-made of pupils within Secondary School no. 2 of Targu Neamt, Experimental Photography Exhibition of the University of Art and Design from Cluj Napoca – “Real – Subreal” and Photo Exhibition …

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“From Dragobete to Whitsuntide Feast – traditions and legends at Romanians” – show contest at the Cultural House Roman

In the program School Different, today April 8th 2015, at 11.00 will begin competition “From Dragobete to Whitsuntide Feast – traditions and legends at Romanians”, seventh edition, held in Roman. It’s an attractive race on stage, in the Great Hall of the House Culture of Trade unions, betwen 9 teams of three students representing colleges and schools in the city 1. Team Determined of the Sports High School o; 2. Team Romantics from Roman Voda National College; 3. Team Adorables of Technology High School Vasile Sav; 4. Team Witty representing secondary schools; 5. Team Protectors of Technical College Petru Poni; 6. Team Overcomers of Technical …

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Waiting The Holy Light at monasteries from Neamt County

It said and it is known by every believer, that in each of us is a spark of Holy Light, that Holy Light is and we feel always in our soul, in our hearts not only of Resurrection. Moreover, the one who loses during the year, it will be found in churches where nuns and monks strives to keep faith in God of this Christian nations. A light that, with the love and forgiveness keys opens the way for ourselves and for our neighbor, gives us the strength to not give in …

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Lent: traditions awaiting Easter Holidays

We are preparing to welcome the Easter holidays by keeping Lent, which lasts 48 days and starts immediately after the Sunday of Forgiveness, as it is written in the Orthodox calendar. There are some habits that are held pending this holiday. Lent is the way that is encountered the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Easter Feast.
The first day after Pancake Day is called Clean Monday, when, long ago, old women wove cloth from which the shirts were worn by Easter. Also on this day, is used to purify the place where people …

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Annunciation at Horaiţa Monastery

Near the monastery Horaiţa, a few hundred meters, on the uphill road is Horaicioara Hermitage or Horaicioara Veche, that exists there since 1466, as recorded document mention in the porch of the church. Beause the hermitage had no church, at the behest of Prince Stephen the Great in 1480, is built, the first church (wooden) dedicated to the Annunciation. After more than 400 years, at the Hermitage, a stone church was built (1868), in which is found the miraculous icon of Our Lady, one of the wonders being the emergence of a …