Neamt County has the highest number of monasteries in the country and that’s one of the reasons for having so many possibilities for pilgrimages. The monasteries from Neamt County are also some of the oldest in Romania and they are located in places of rare natural beauty. The priests that lived here are famous in all Romania. For all these reasons pilgrims will have a special personal and spiritual experience when walking from one monastery to another.
These hikes between monasteries, that we also call pilgrimages, represent much more than just a physical action that take us from one place to another: it’s more like a journey of our soul. It may sound strange but walking in the mountains from Neamt County, to these monasteries, it has something unique to it that makes you feel that you’re doing much more than a simple walk in the woods.
FromSihastriaMonastery you can reachSihlaeither by car, on an 8 km dirt road, or by foot on a 3 km hike. We recommend visiting Sihla Monastery by walking to it. Sihla is located in the south-east of Stanisoara Mountain and the area is locally known as Sihla Mountain.
This place has a great religious importance to Neamt County, mainly because of all the priests and monks that lived in these forests. That fact that you can walk on the same path that father Cleopa and father Paisie Olaru walked, or the fact that you can pray in the cave where St Teodora lived for almost 40 years represents a wonderful experience. After all, the purpose of a pilgrimage is to change something in your human essence. Walking between monasteries gives you the time to think, to meditate and to make decisions.
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