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"There are places and settlements that need no special recommendation. Just mentioning their name reminds you of something familiar, something you have heard about on other occasions, evoking events that happened long ago, and the passage of time only adds to their aura of interest. One such settlement is Piatra-Neamț," wrote Victor Nămolaru in his book "A Short Tourist Guide to Piatra-Neamț," published in 1969.
Benefiting from a unique natural setting and easy access to all points of the compass, the territory of today's municipality of Piatra-Neamț has been a permanent place of habitation. The oldest archaeological evidence comes from the settlement at Poiana Cireșului (on the banks of the Doamna stream) and dates back to the Upper Paleolithic, being characteristic of the Gravettian culture.
Subsequently, for over two millennia, the Neolithic population at the foot of Cozla and Pietricica underwent a fruitful evolution, expressed through a material culture that developed from Precucuteni to the Cucuteni B phase. This was the era when the settlements at Izvoare and Văleni were established and developed, and those masterpieces of Cucuteni pottery were created.
Din epoca bronzului The cemetery and settlement in the Ciritei neighborhood bear witness to the Bronze Age, where numerous weapons, vessels, tools, and ornaments produced in the 13th-12th centuries BC have been preserved. However, the most significant evidence of our locality's distant history is that which belongs to the Geto-Dacian civilization (on the heights of Bâtca Doamnei and Cozla). The size, wealth, and power of these centers, which reached their peak between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, led to their identification with the "Dacian Kingdom." The Dacians were a people who lived in the territory of present-day Romania and the Carpathian Basin.Petrodava”, menționată în lucrarea „Geografia” de Ptolemeu. Alte vestigii au fost descoperite la Izvoare (sec. IV e.n.), la Lutărie (sec. V-VI e.n.) și pe Bâtca Doamnei (sec. XII-XIII e.n.)
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Bienala Națională de Artă Plastică “Lascăr Vorel”, ediția a XIX-a
