Ceahlau Mountain Festival

Ceahlău Mountain Festival, organized by Neamt County Council in partnership with Ceahlău Village Hall, the National Tourism ANTREC Romania and, not least, the Department of Administration Ceahlău National Park will take place this year on 2-4 August near religious feast “Transfiguration” (August 6) when is the patron of Mount Ceahlău.

Are expected at the mountain feast from Durău resort both residents and those neighboring Ceahlău communes: Grinties, Poiana Teiului, Hangu, Tasca, Bicazu Ardelean, Bicaz-Chei, Bicaz and Romanian and foreign tourists are in the area.

Ceahlău Mountain Festival and “Transfiguration” are manifestations that continues an old tradition which the priest Constantin Matase used to say: “Thus, in ancient times, it is customary neighboring villages may just inherited the tradition of the pagan inhabitants of another time, near the Ceahlău, that once a year, on “Transfiguration Day” the people to climb up the peak, where, after a priest committed a prayer, follow the feast on the lawn and then games and shriek of the air throbbed. Since the night, in the morning of August 6th swarms of villagers climb up the mountain in celebration port, meeting above the village with the village “.