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Piatra Neamt | Targu Neamt | Bicaz | Durau

For the pilgrim tourist from Neamt area, Piatra Neamt town, the residence town of the district really represents an urban “island” between the mountains. In the natural amphitheatre, formed at 310 meters height of the peaks Cozia, Pietricica, Batca Doamnei and Cemegura, there are valuable historical monuments and of art. The three Dacians fortresses from I B.C.-I A.C. were drew out because of the archeological diggings from Batca Doamnei, Cozia and Horodiştea were identified with the antic place Petrodava, mentioned in Ptolomeu’s writings. Is this way brought back the evidence that shows the town’s unbroken existence. In one of the documents since Alexander the Kind’s reign, it appears under the “Christmas Rock” name. Afterwards, he is chosen as a strategically point of Stephen the Great, who builds up here a lordly Court. In 1841, the well-read Gheorghe Asachi founded at Piatra Neamt, the first paper “mill” from Moldavia, and in 1872, Petrache Liciu founds the first local theatre.

Orasul Piatra Neamt.

Points of Interest:

The Ensemble of the Former Lordly court. Built up between 1497-1499, during Stephen the Great, where once was the lordly Court, the ensemble involves a beautiful architectural monument, with a lots of decorative ceramics elements enameled on the sides and a tower high of 10 meters, with outside stairs that assures the access to the first floor, the both buildings having characteristics of the Moldavia’s style.

History Museum, since 1934, reorganized in its initial form in 1980. The exhibition space has 36 halls. Among other things, here it is a precious pottery collection neolithic painted, in Cucuteni Style (an unique piece of great artistic value is “The Frumuşica Dance”, an anthropomorphous support old of 4 thousand years), a treasure of golden Thracian receptacles, an exceptional treasure of Roman silver vessels, discovered in 1972 and weighting over 1 kg, a precious numismatic collection, with Greece coins, Dacian, Roman, Byzantine, Moldavian (XIV-XV centuries), objects found after the diggings from Bîtca Doamnei and on the former lordly Court etc.

The Ensemble of the Former Lordly court, built during Stephen the Great.

The Art Museum, opened in 1980, in the former building of The Archeology Museum. Disposes of a rich exhibitional background with works of plastic Romanian art. The basic exhibition is dedicated to Lascăr Viorel şi Aurel Băeşu painters.

The Natural science Museum, founded in 1960 and reorganized in the initial building, has among other, the largest collection of fossil oligocene fishes from the country, having 15 unique exhibits from the mineralogy, botanical, geology etc. domain.

The Ethnography Museum, involves an interesting collection of popular costume, utensil of some old trades and traditional rural installations from Neamt area.

Memorial Museum “Calistrat Hogas”, organized in the house where he lived and created, passionate by traveling, he crossed Neamtului Mountains.

The park of the town. Disposed on south side of slope of Cozia Mountain, almost a century ago and from where it rise a beautiful perspective over the town.

The Dacian ruins from Batca Doamnei (on the right lakeside of Bistrita at the exit of the town). Here there are obvious the wall enclosures, the two sanctuaries, a piece of stockade, marks of Dacian places etc.

Bistrita Monastery. On the way from Piatra Neamt to Bicaz, followed DN 15 for 5 km, then right on a countryside road 5 km too where it is Bistrita Monastery, one of the oldest monachal location from Moldavia. Alexander the Great supplemented the construction of the church before 7 January 1407 and became an important centre of pilgrimage.