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The town of Piatra Neamt

105 000 inhabitants, located on the valley Bistrita, with the place or this one leaves the mountains (Carpates Oriental).

Capital of the Neamt department.

Piatra Neamt is at an altitude of 310 m and it is surrounded by following mounts: Pietricica (590m) towards South-east, Cozla (679m) towards North Carloman (617m) towards Western North, Batca-Doamnei (462m) towards South-west.
Located at the medium of these mounts, the city is the center from which they leave tourist ways in the close mountain area.

Vestiges of the time of Dacs, the originating population which lived these places before the Romain Empire.
The first documentary certificate is in a list of the cities old existing between 1387-1392, under the name of "Piatra him Craciun "(stone of Christmas).

Piatra Neamt developed after the reign of Stefan Cel Mare who made to build over there. Princely Court, the city and the cathedral St.Jacques of which the Tower bears besides its name (the Tower of Etienne "Turnul him Stefan ").

There are two lakes: "Batca Doamnei" of a surface of 255 ha and «Reconstructiei "10 ha of or leaves the hydroelectric Channel the river Bistrita.

Archaeological relics of the Neolithic period ("Cultura Cucuteni")
sheltered by research the International Center of the Cucuteni Culture who is in Piatra Neamt since 1997.

This center carried out systematic archaeological excavations in several archaeological sites. The precursor of this museum was Constantin Matasa (1878-1971) personality of Rumanian archaeology.

The Cozla Park, located on the place of another old named city Cozla shelter a natural reserve of fauna in which bears live there, wolves, foxes, hinds and a large variety of birds.

Cultural references:

- the Theatre of the Youth of Piatra- Neamt was creates in 1958.

- the House "Elena Cuza" (Elena Cuza was the wife of the Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, the first Rumanian prince reigning of Romania, after the Union of principalities Moldavia and Valachie, of January 24 1859).

- Places of religious worship which form part of the architectural heritage: the orthodox Christian church "Schimbarea Fata" and the large one Synagogue.

Piatra Neamt is the city of the painter Victor Brauner (born on June 15, 1903, died in Paris, March 12 1966) French surrealist painter of origin Jewish Rumanian. It settled in Paris in 1930 and was affirmed thanks to friendship of Andre Breton.

It is thanks to the Rumanian writer Calistrat HOGAS (1847-1917), of which native house become a museum is in the city, that Piatra Neamt and its surroundings are described in literary pages.

The traditional book which refers to these places is: "Memories of one travel in the Mounts of Neamt ".


Text: Cléopatra Lorintiu

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