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Situated in the North-Easth of the Neamt depression, at about 42 km from Piatra Neamt, at a height of 425 meters, the little town if famous among the Moldavians places since XIV century, when it became known as a commercial centre. With its position, near some famous historical monuments and of art, the town became an important travel centre.

Neamt Fortress.

Points of Interest:

Neamt Fortress. Built up on Plesu hill, by Petru I Muşat, between 1382-1387 years, strengthen by Stephen the Great voivode, the fortress resisted heroically at 1476 against the army of Mahomed the II, conquering Constantinople.

Memorial museum “Ion Creanga”, placed in Humulesti, quarter of the town, the museum reconstitutes the great narrator’s personality, through several exhibits.

The Municipal Museum. Set up in 1957, reorganized in 1978 in the initial building- the former Lordly School from 1852, a historical monument nowadays. The collection involves mostly archeology exhibits (pieces discovered at the diggings from the Fortress).

“Mihail Sadoveanu” Memorial Museum. (Vânători-Neamţ commune). It is devoted to the prosaist’s life and work, where he spent often his summers here.

The Inn of Ancuta (Hanul Ancutei). It is in Tupilati commune, on the way between Tîrgu Neamţ and Roman, at about 28 km from Roman. It is a pleasant halting place, which remembers the stories once written on pages full of charm of Mihail Sadoveanu.

Memorial House “Ion Creanga” from Humulesti.

Neamt Medieval Complex. Placed in Vînători-Neamţ commune, was the most important centre of culture and art from medieval Moldavia and also one of the most precious architectonic ensembles of the ancient Romanian art. In 1497 Stephen the Great built up here a monument which honors the Moldavian style built in his epoque, impressing through its imposing proportions, unreached until then, but also through the architectonical shapes and the outside decoration’s concord. Inside the complex, there is a museum with precious objects of medieval Moldavian art. Somewhere near it is “Dragoş Vodă” Reservation of Uruses.

Varatec Monastery, placed in the village with the same name, it was built up in 1808 and combines Moldavian traditional shapes with Neoclassical elements. Near by it is the grave of Veronica Micle, inside the local museum, placed inside the former school.

Agapia Monastery, situated in the commune with the same name, it is a foundation of Gavril’s hetman from 1644-1647, rebuilt in 1823, when the facades were covered in a decoration of a Neoclassical inspiration, in the inside, mural paintings realized by Nicolae Grigorescu between 1858-1860. At Agapia it can be visited also “Alexandru Vlahuţă” Memorial Museum, arranged in a simple house with verandah were often stayed the author’s friends, great writers, such as Caragiale, Delavrancea, Ibrăileanu, Sadoveanu, Topîrceanu of “The Picturesque Romania”.