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Falticeni

Stable population of Falticeni is 33.250 inhabitants. The surface of city is 28.760 kilometres square (a quarter is covered with the orchards and of lakes). 9.976 pupils and children are to include in 25 units of teaching.

The municipality of Falticeni is one mark bench for the culture and for science. A great number of the outstanding personalities have to study and have creates in this city. Falticeni it is the third city after Bucharest and Iasi like numbers writers.
City patriarchal and picturesque, over powered melancholy of spring and of autumn.

Falticeni aspires has the fame of city museum, it is called Florence of Romania.
The first written certificate of city dates from March 15, 1490, and the name comes du' a land great landowner Stan Pantece, to call Foltic.

Geographical situation:

The city is cut by the road (Bucharest Suceava). It is placed has does not outdistance of 25 klm Suceava, the administrative center of the county (Bucovine), 120 Klm of Vatra Dornei, 135 klm of Bacau, 125 klm of Iasi and 450 km of Bucharest. The airport nearest is Salcea, close of Suceava.

The climatic conditions are moderate, continental with Baltic influences.

Natural resources:

The forests has null and void and resinous sheets, thus wood industry is well represented the city and its environments. The area offers special conditions pedoclimatic for the culture of fruit trees, of potato. Around the city a belt of approximately 1500 hectares of orchards.

Development:

The industrial branches are industry, alcohol and of regeneration chemical of drinks, textile industry, industry drink (wood of it rough treating and impregnation, production of pieces of furniture), industry of building materials, steel buildings, food industry ( manufacture of bread and pastry making, the products bases meat, dairy and the cheese, treatment and conservation of the fruits and of vegetables, of fish and the fishery products).
The agricultural surface of Falticeni is 1865 ha. Analysis of surface agricultural proves that it accounts for 68.3% of all the surface of the apparatus administrative, dominating being fields and agricultural orchards.

Museums:

The largest collection of authors of the country, almost 300 sculptures, 1000 drawings, museum of art "Ion Irimescu" offers with the public an exposure permanent rich person and important of contemporary art. The Master Ion Irimescu has give more of the 100 of its work has the town of Falticeni, the authority have has its provision the building of the old prefecture put, one moreover old and beautiful building of the city.

On the place of the Assumption have can see the bronze statues, of Mihail Sadoveanu de Ion Irimescu. Museum there is an art gallery which presents painting of Aurel Baiesu, Stefan Soldanescu, and Mihai Camarut Dimitrie Loghin originating in the area in Falticeni.
The museum of water "Mihai Bacescu"


The museum presents the world of water since 1980 in the old one court of Falticeni. Mihai Bacescu was the section head of Oceanology of the Rumanian Academy, Member of the International Commission for Scientific Exploration in Mediterrannee (1960).

Mihai Bacescu offered to the museum more than 700 (fish and crustacean) dimensioned works in various fields: botany, zoology, ecology terrestrial and marine, museology.

One finds here 13 aquarium of a capacity of 11.000 L or live many fish species.

One can admire there a sphere terrestrial 1,50 cm in diameter realized by the professor of geography Isaic Nicolae with a millimetre-length precision (to realize in 5 years).

The commemorative house Mihail Sadoveanu is a space of emotion which preserves a specific, old atmosphere or has it wrote 18 pounds. This was built on a hill which dominates city.

Mihail Sadoveanu A likes much Falticeni and in 1930 has the occasion of its 50 years, population of Falticeni
He paid homage, said: "A Folticei J drank the running water of Rumanian heart, which I do not have forgets never...."He was member of the Rumanian Academy in 1923.


Gallery of the great men is a museum which offers with the public one excursion in the spiritual atmosphere of the city and the men of culture:

authors, painters, actors, musicians, scientists (more than 140 personalities of famous main road and international). Matei Milo, Enache Gane, Costache Gane, Maria Cantacuzino, Nicolae Istrati, Nicu Gane, Ion Creanga, Nicolae Beldiceanu, Mihail Sadoveanu, Ion Dragoslav, Anton Holban, Horia Lovinescu, Vasile Lovinescu, Nicolae Labis, Vasile Savel, Nicolae Jianu, Mihail serban Grigore Ilisei,
Historians, of literary criticisms philologist Eugene Lovinescu, Alexandru Lambrior, Teodor V. Stefanelli, Virgil Tempeanu, Gheorghe Carded, Mihai Gafita, A.G. Stino, Constantin Ciopraga, Cornel Dimitriu, Stefan Sorin Gorovei; man of theatre and musicians: Jules Cazaban, Grigore Vasiliu-Birlic, Paul Calinescu, George Adamachi, Alexandru Algiers; plastic artists Ion Irimescu, Stefan Soldanescu, Dimitrie Hârlescu, Aurel Baesu, Maria Mihaescu, Mihai Camarut, Vasile Vasiliu- Falti, folclorists Artur Gorovei Mihai Lupaescu; men of science Dimitrie Leonida, Nicolae Grigoras, Vasile Ciurea, Mihai Bacescu, Eliot Sorel, Sofia Ionescu-Ogrezeanu Guilder Constantin Ghiurea.

This ground gave has civilization of great men who knew to discover the spiritual fertility of this area splendid.


Text & Photographs of: Georgeta Olaru

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