In the last article, I talked about the historical and cultural places, the beauties and the aspects of the city of Iași, which I fell in love with.
".... Traveler and passer-by, as always, Iasi is a quiet stop for me (...). His Vaselia appears to me in a completely intellectual way, under the icon of my literate friends, gathered in discussions and reading (.. A day spent in Iasi was all ideal where everyone wants to spend their lives like nowhere else. any Romanian center ... "Galaction Gala - Iași was too much. "
In this article I will tell you about my travels with my colleagues and the wonderful trip outside Iasi.
Another interesting location is the Roznovanu Palace-Iasi City Hall.
Built in the 18th century, the Roznovanu Palace belonged to the richest and most influential families in the political landscape of Iași at that time.
This wonderful location, for a while, was a royal residence, and during the First World War it hosted the headquarters of the ministries, regugiate in Bucharest. The current office of the mayor was the office of King Ferdinard, and the meeting room of the Local Council was the place where the War Council of Romania met in 1918.
After this miracle I entered the Church of St. Nicole Domnesc. The Church of St. Nicholas the Prince was founded by Stephen the Great, and almost all the voivodes of Moldavia were anointed here. It was renovated between 1888 and 1904 by Lecomte de Nouy, with a gold-plated iconostasis, carved in lime wood and Byzantine-style painting.
From here, Anastasie Panu Street leads to the civic center, originally a communist-style shopping center. Nowadays, the post-communist development is manifested by the lack of architectural uniformity, the food area moving under a glass dome behind the new Moldova Mall.
It was snowing heavily outside, covering the city in white. It was damp, you could feel it entering your bones. But I had to go far to see other beautiful and unseen locations.
In a fenced park behind Hotel Europa is the "Barboi Monastery," which is in good condition. It was built between 1613-1615, affected by the 1829 earthquake and renovated. Inspired by the architecture on Mount Athos, the church has four cannons with two hemispherical domes and is the only one in Iasi in the shape of a Greek cross.
The student years were beautiful and full of experience with the new friends I made.
One day a colleague of mine suggested that we take a walk through Iasi, to see interesting places, among them was the "Metropolitan Church of Moldova and Bukovina." During my four years as a student, I often went to light a candle and pray. It is a strong bond and an invaluable power.
The city of Iasi, the cultural capital of Moldova, is famous for its spiritual charge, offering its tourists the opportunity to discover some of the most impressive places of worship in Moldova. These include the Metropolitan Church of Moldova and Bukovina, located in the central part of the city.
It is famous for housing the Relics of the Holy Pious Parascheva, the patron saint of Moldova. Hundreds of thousands of believers go there every year to celebrate the days of the city to pray at the relics of Saint Parascheva, who is said to have produced many miracles among the faithful.
The monumental cathedral of Iași is marked by four massive towers, and its architecture is inspired by the Baroque style, which marks both the decorative elements on the outside and those on the inside.
Near the Metropolitan Church of Moldova and Bukovina, there is a Romanian-Catholic Cathedral, while I was leaving the church, I passed by curiosity, I saw how the faithful gathered and I heard the choir sing, I went in to hear their liturgy.
What caught my attention at St. Mary's Cathedral is its circular shape, rarely found in churches. The interior is dominated by a mosaic icon from another depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary and animated by the stained glass windows of the 24 orgies.
After that I visited another important church which is next to the Cathedral of the Monastery of the Holy Three Hierarchs which is the most beautiful foundation of the Lord of the Land of Moldavia, Vasile Lupu, being built in 1637-1639. The appearance of the monastery is unique due to the exterior ornaments, which cover the entire building and which was originally gilded. Alexandru Ioan Cuza was buried here.
Considered an architectural monument of great value in Iasi and throughout the country, the Monastery of the Holy Three Hierarchs attracts attention with its impressive architecture and due to its unique stone decorations, which adorn the upper facades. Founded by Vasile Lupu and built between 1635 and 1639, it was also home to the relics of Saint Parascheva between 1641 and 1889, before they were moved to the Metropolitan Cathedral. The fabulous and intricate exterior decorative elements make up a mess in the geometric figure that would not seem out of place on the most refined mosques of the same period.
Like a stone fabric, each outer door is crafted and sculpted into 30 strips of zigzags and braided circles, sprinkled with roses in arches and braids.
The monastery is also famous as the site of the first topography in Moldavia, founded by Vasile in 1640, and its first school dates back to 1641.
After visiting this wonderful monastery, I also went to Golia Monastery, it is located in a rose garden, behind a high stone wall. Initially on the northeastern border of the city of Iași, it was founded by the boyar Ioan Golia at the beginning of the 16th century and was rebuilt and extended in 1650-1653.
The tower of Golia Monastery is one of the symbols of Iași, and an important tourist attraction, if you climb the 120 steps up, you will see a beautiful panorama over the city.
In addition to the church in the complex, built by Vasile Lupu in the years 1650-1653, inside the defense walls there is also a house with columns from the 18th century, where Ion Creangă lived temporarily, while he was a deacon at Golia.
In an almost rural setting, three monasteries at the southern end of the city make up a place not worth visiting. These Monasteries are the Citadel Monastery, the Beautiful Monastery and last but not least the Galata Monastery.
On the top of one of the seven hills, the Cetățuia Monastery enjoys such a soothing calm that it seems detached from the rest of the city. Built between 1668 and 1672 by the voivode Gheorghe Duca. The monastery is remarkable for the fact that it survived almost intact behind the stone walls, 7 m high and 1.4 m thick. The church itself, a simpler version of the Three Hierarchs Monastery, preserves the original frescoes of the three Aromanian brothers from Ioannina.
From here, a 20-minute walk to the city along Poitier Boulevard, you can reach the Beautiful Monastery.
Although the location under the Citadel hill is less spectacular, its adorable gardens make it worthy of its name, the Beautiful Monastery. Founded in the 16th century by Meletie Balica, it became a monastery in 1618 under Gavrile Movilă and then under the princely court of Grigore Ghica. With strong Russian and Ukrainian influences in its architecture, the church dates back to 1836.
Also on the same hill of the same name, Galata Monastery was founded by Peter the Lame between 1582 and 1584, and has a beautiful and imposing bell tower. The only original part is the typical Moldovan church, while the other buildings were built in 1960. More isolated than the Beautiful Monastery, but not like the Citadel, it has a fenced garden where the nuns let the cattle graze, and a workshop where they made liturgical vestments and embroidered things.
In this article I will tell you about a trip I did in the penultimate year of college with my colleagues and our teachers.
It was a cold, sunny March day, and winter doesn't want to leave us yet. But time was running out and we were able to enjoy the view from the outside.
The plan of our trip was very interesting, the final destination was Iasi. Târgul Frumos, Palatul Ruginoasa, Miclăușeni, Piatra Neamț and the final destination Bicaz, Lacul Roșul and the return home. We all gathered at 8 o'clock in the morning in front of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University. The bus was waiting for us all to set off.
While we were leaving Iași, the driver took her to the village of Ruginoasa at a distance of 60 km from the city of Iași between the towns of Târgul Frumos and Pașcani. The palace of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza from Ruginoasă is a neo-Gothic palace built in 1804, which originally belonged to the Sturdza family and is currently a memorial museum dedicated to the Lord of the Union.
The ruler's house from "Ruginoasa" was known as Rușinoasa, because of the love of the eyes of the world and the ears of the family. In addition, it is said that the palate is cursed because the night was haunted by the ghost of a prince who lived here.
The palace, which today houses the Al. I. Cuza, was built in the first decade of the 19th century, by the treasurer Sandulache Sturdza, who commissioned the Viennese architect Johan Freiwald to build a luxurious residence on the site of the old boyar house of his ancestors. The original style was the neoclassical one, preserved by the chapel of the residence, a style that had prevailed in the civil architecture of Moldova at that time.
The building, which still retains the characteristics of the neo-Gothic style, inspired by German Romanticism, is square in shape, with one floor, each of the four facades having the same wide platform elements, balconies supported by stone slabs.
The striking resemblance to the palace, from Miclăușeni, Iași County, is not accidental, as it was built by another branch of the Sturdza family.
After leaving the Ruginoasă Palace, I took her to Tg Neamț, in the house where the great poet Mihai Eminescu was born in Ipotești. In 1924, Eminescu's childhood home, uninhabited for years, had become a ruin. In 1940, the first memorial museum was inaugurated in Ipotești, established in the house rebuilt in 1934 on the same place. As it does not respect the structure of the original, the museum house is demolished, and in 1979 another one is inaugurated, rebuilt on the old foundation of the Eminoviceşti house.
Starting with the year 2000, the exterior and interior finishing of the house, the furniture exhibited part original part from the second half of the 19th century revives the atmosphere of the thirty years (1848-1878) in which the poet's family lived in Ipotești, in the house built by the manor house with the final move to the village estate.
After visiting this beautiful spiritual and cultural richness, we got on the bus and took it to Miclăușeni, located 65 km from Iași, also known as Sturza Palace, the bargain-style castle that was built at the end of the century. 19th century as the residence of Gheorghe Sturdza.
Negotiating influences can be found in decorations such as: turrets, medieval armor, carousel, Latin sayings inscribed on the walls, entrance tower with a bridge over the water ditch.
After I finished seeing the Miclăușeni Palace, I took it to Bicaz and Red Lake. What I saw impressed me the most, the beauty of the places and the hospitality of the locals.
We decided to have lunch at Red Lake. We headed to Bicaz, a city in Neamț County, Moldova, Romania, consisting of the component localities Bicaz (residence), Capsa, Dodeni and Izvorul Muntelui, and behind Izvoru Alb, Potoci and Secu.
Bicaz Gorges are gorges located in the central part of the Hășmas Mountains, in northeastern Romania in Neamț and Harghita County, developed in Jurassic limestone. It is located in the central part of the eastern peak Țulgheș-Valea Rece of the Hășmaș Massif. Their main axis is represented by the Bicaz river. Monument of nature, are included protected areas of national interest. Cheile Bicazului from Neamț County and Lacul Roșu from Harghita County, being located in the integral protection area of Cheile Bicazului-Hășamș National Park. The landscape in front of us was indescribable.
The gorges, crossed by the Bicaz river, deeply fragment the Hășmaș Mountains in the central part of their eastern peak, Tulgheș-Valea Rece, dividing the respective peak into a northern and a southern part (Dămuc Peak).
Although the gorges appeared in a mass of Jurassic limestone, along the route Lacul Roșu-Bucazu Ardelean there is also an association of jaspers, volcanic ash and conglomerates, which, along with the existence of differently colored and varied rocks in shape and composition, as well as and in the context in which most of the attractions in the area are located on the axis of the keys, they make this one of the most remarkable tourist attractions in the Romanian Carpathians.
We arrived at the Bicaz dam, there were many tourists from all over the world. We enjoyed the view from the outside. We were hungry.
Our teachers told us that we were going to eat you at Red Lake, at a Romanian restaurant.
In front of us the tourists went up the hill and down the valley, on a narrow and rocky road. On the left were shops selling handicrafts. Traders sold everything from handmade products to handicrafts. You could buy gifts for your loved ones.
It was an indescribable beauty and I had impressions. The fresh air and the coolness outside made you not leave
In front of us was the Stone Gate, which opened the way for us.
Then I saw, on the right side, a cross on top of a mountain. That place I found out later was called the Altar Stone.
From there I entered the Entrance to Hell's Neck, a part of the road was narrow, and then a beautiful view opened up some Serpentines leading to the Red Lake Tunnel.
Red Lake (locally also known as Ghilcoș Lake) is a natural dam lake formed following the collapse of a slope due to the earthquake of January 23, 1838, at 18.45. 6.9 magnitude, VIII intensity at the foot of the Hășmașul Mare Mountain, near the Bicaz Gorges, at a distance of 26 km from Gheorgheni, in Harghita County. According to the latest measurements, made in 1987, its dimensions are: the lake stretches over a perimeter of 2,830 m. The lake was formed at an altitude of 983 m and the volume of water that accumulates is 587,503 m. The lake was formed at the attitude of 983 , in a depression with a predominantly subalpine climate. After seeing this wonder, I ate at the local restaurant. We were tired, but we spent two wonderful hours. We got on the bus and went to Iasi.
At the end, I recommend you if you pass through Romania, only to see these wonderful places, of a rare beauty. I will soon surprise you with new impressions and memories.
Written by Elena Boguș
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