
Christmas Fair in Neamț, 2017 edition – day II
Neamț County Council, through the “Carmen Saeculare” Centre for Culture and Arts, is organising the second Christmas Fair in Neamț from 17 December 2017 – 1 January 2018.

Neamț County Council, through the “Carmen Saeculare” Centre for Culture and Arts, is organising the second Christmas Fair in Neamț from 17 December 2017 – 1 January 2018.

The convent seems to have taken its name from the hermit Agape, who erected the first monastic site around 1380, in Agapia Veche.




A highly developed field in Neamț since the beginning of the 20th century is woodcraft, which has led to the emergence of villages specialised in particular types of work.

“Under Foreign Skies. Lithuania’s Inhabitants in Camps and Places of Exile in the USSR. The Years 1940-1958”. Press release.

Anyone travelling along the roads of the more remote mountain villages of Neamț County can still see many traditional buildings, true testimonies to the lives of our ancestors.

The “Extenso” choral group, conducted by Kallo Ildiko and comprising Gabriela Pepelea, Andras Ildiko, Cătălin Brahonschi, Cristi Laiu and pianist Cristina Șoitu, invites music lovers to a recital of Romanian Christmas carols.




Located in the central area of the county, it is the largest naturally dammed lake in the country – i.e. area – 12.2 hectares, length – 1 km, average width – 102 m, and average depth – 7.44 m.

The “Extenso” choir, conducted by Kallo Ildiko and comprising Gabriela Pepelea, Andras Ildiko, Cătălin Brahonschi, Cristi Laiu and pianist Cristina Șoitu, invites music lovers to a recital of Romanian carols.

Located in the commune Crăcăoani, the monastery was built in 1824, by archimandrite Irinarh Roset, with the support of the Metropolitan Bishop Veniamin Costachi, on the site of a fifteenth-century wooden church.






Thursday, 7 December 2017, at 17:00, in the “Cupolă” hall at G.T. Kirileanu County Library in Piatra Neamț.

Soprano Anda-Louise Bogza will give a concert for the winter festive season, under the title “Amintiri, daruri, lumină”, at G.T.

* The Bessarabian historian will deliver the lecture “Un secol de la Marea Unire. Basarabia în căutarea identității naționale” at the G.T. Kirileanu County Library.

Romania's only mobile planetarium returns to Piatra Neamț with a new show about eclipses and the seasons.