Category: Monasteries

A favorite place for hermits, the hermitage is built in a meadow on a mountain peak.  You can get here on the paths: either one that goes on the ridge, or a winding path, which goes up and down the slopes of the mountain. The pilgrims who come to the hermitage helped to build the place by taking the path […]

Located near the Neamț Monastery, it has always been a suitable place for temporary or permanent withdrawal for some monks. It is a place that abounds in silence. The proof of that is the Mihail Sadoveanu Memorial House which is situated in the immediate vicinity of the hermitage, a house that was used by the author for creation. The area […]

Located in a meadow with secular forests, 4 km from Neamț Monastery, Pocrov hermitage is one of the oldest monastic buildings in Neamț county. The road leading to the hermitage passes through places of unparalleled tranquility and scenery and stops in a meadow of impressive beauty. People who have visited the Pocrov hermitage say that “this is the place where […]

Six kilometers from the Neamț Monastery, in a dense forest which seems deserted, you can find the Icoana Veche Hermitage. History says that, because of Etheria, the Icon of the Virgin Mary given to the voivode Alexander the Good by the Byzantine emperor Ioan Paleologul, about 600 years ago was hidden here. In the place where, various objects together with […]

Continuing the way from the impressive and old monastery of Neamț, after the Icoana Veche Hermitage, there was a meadow called “Icon Valley”, the place where the locals once kept the cattle. With the patron saint , “The transfiguration of Jesus”, the church was built of brick and stone-plated, for it to be subsequently decorated with a fresco painting. Tourists […]

If you stop at the Dragoș-Vodă Bisons and Charpatian Fauna Reservation, you can also go to the Cărbuna Hermitage, located not far from the main road. Located in a plantation of secular oak trees and a special natural setting, the Cărbuna Hermitage is the place of remembrance and prayer for the heroes of the Romanian nation during the two world […]

If you choose to seclude yourself from the world for a few moments, at 4km from Neamț Monastery you will have a spiritual trip to the Braniște Chapel. Although close to the main road, the place is loaded with sacerdotal and spiritual tranquility. The very entrance of this hermitage gives you the feeling of meeting with God.

300 meters from the Neamț Monastery is the place where, say the locals, “the saints rejuvenate, renew, the elders live through the church”. Fixed in the middle of nature, it is said that the church was built in 1846 for the old monks who spent the last years of their lives here and has the shape of a nave with […]

Two kilometers from the Agapia Monastery, among the towering trees of the forest, the Agapia Veche Hermitage stands guard. You can reach this place by car on a cobbled road, or on foot, on a marked path that crosses the forest. The trip to Agapia Veche helps you discover and learn about the monastic beginnings, along with other pilgrims who […]

In the Neamț Mountains, 3 km from the Sihăstria Monastery, there is the Poiana lui Ioan Hermitage. The road to the hermitage can be traveled by car or on foot through a secular beech and coniferous forest. The “Road of the Cross” as it has been called, is marked with trunks on which pictures with scenes from the last days […]

Far from the urban civilization, through a beech forest, we arrive to the Saint Nifon Hermitage. Here nature is intertwined with the kindness of those who serve. The Nifon hermitage was built after the founding of the Secu Monastery, by a monk by the name Nifon, who came from Mount Athos. Hidden in the heart of Neamt, the Nifon Hermitage […]

The Horăicioara Monastery from Neamț County dates from 1466, being built by order of Saint Stephen the Great, in order to offer the monks a place of prayer and shelter from the invaders. A wooden church was originally built. In its place, in 1868 a stone church was built, dedicated to the Healing Spring, and after 1988 the cells were […]