Tourist Attractions, Accommodation, Restaurants in BOTOSANI county

Botosani County is located in North-East Romania. The county seat is the municipality of Botosani. It has a population of 412,626 inhabitants and an area of ??4,986 sq. Km.

It borders on the north and east with Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova (the former Basarabian province). In the south there is the county of Iasi, and in the west the county of Suceava (the county border on the Siret river).

The territory of the county, which is entirely in the hilly area of Northern Moldavia, shows relatively low altitudes: the Siret hills, higher in the west and in the northern Moldavian Plain, and the low hills in the East, with characteristics typical of the Moldavian Plateau. As an altitude, the relief varies between 587m in the Dealu Mare Tudora area and 54m in the Prut meadow. The relief is mostly protruding, representing broad valleys, smooth platforms and low slopes.

The Old Dorohoi City Hall

At 0.33 km from Dorohoi city center.

Horlaceni Arinis

At 5.52 km from Dorohoi city center.

The wooden church of Vorniceni

At 19.43 km from Dorohoi city center.

the Vargolici Church (the wooden church)

At 0.51 km from Dorohoi city center.

Museum of Natural Sciences

At 0.73 km from Dorohoi city center.

The Fortress from Hiliseu Crisan

At 13.57 km from Dorohoi city center.

The Peatery from Dersca - Lozna

At 12.1 km from Dorohoi city center.

Gorovei Monastery

At 9.38 km from Dorohoi city center.

The Ensemble of the Domnesti Church

At 0.73 km from Dorohoi city center.

George Enescu Memorial Museum

At 0.82 km from Dorohoi city center.

the Municipal House of Culture

At 0.45 km from Dorohoi city center.

The Wooden Church from Braesti

At 11.27 km from Dorohoi city center.

Cathedral of Assumption

At 0.39 km from Dorohoi city center.

City Library of Dorohoi

At 0.77 km from Dorohoi city center.

The George Enescu memorial house in Liveni

At 15.61 km from Saveni city center.

The wooden church dedicated to St. Dumitru is located in the village of Vorniceni in Botosani county, at a distance of 7 km from the Dorohoi - Iasi railway. The church in Vorniceni, possibly the oldest wooden church in Botosani County, does not have a pen, inscription or other document to certify the founder or the year when this place was erected. The construction is very similar to the wooden church in Putna. After the village hearth moved, in 1821, the logothete Nicolae Rosetti intervened to rescue the church in the middle of the community. Tradition says that this church was built by cutting the secular oaks of an old forest that stretched alongside the former site of the village, thus cleaning up the place where the church was built. Later the church was relocated from the hill, down the valley, into the village, being isolated because of the thieves. On several icons in the iconography is inscribed the year in which they were given to the church, so that on an icon of the Virgin Mary one can read the year 1783, and on the other one is seen the year 1785. From the above it can be easily inferred that in In 1774, the wooden church of Vorniceni exists, and like any wooden monument has undergone, over time, interventions in order to restore it. For example, in 1902, a moral and material situation of the church was submitted to the archpriest, from which we find that religious services were still being served, only that they wanted to move to the church because the wooden church was in a bad condition Because of his age. Maintained by the villagers of Vorniceni, was covered with a shingle period, but in 1915 they decided to contribute with their own money to replace the roof with zinc plated. In addition, the parish priest, Ioan Ionescu, borrowed from the People's Bank on June 24, 1915, the sum of 100 lei, to complete the work started in January by the master Costache Gh. Arnautu, also Chiricea. The church remained under this form until 1929, when a fire occurred in this part of the village. Requests for restoration of village monuments were filed after fire, and damages for the wooden church were valued at 100,000 lei. The roof of the church is made of shingles, being worked by folk technique in scales, and the bottom of the eaves is elongated to protect the walls of decay, being decorated with some wooden elements. The entire church is set on a stone foundation that has the role of building consolidation.

The building, a historical monument registered in the Historical Monuments List in 2010, code BT-11-m-B-01970 with the name <Former Prefecture, Today Museum of Natural Sciences> dates from the end of the sec. XIX (1887). The building was built in 1878 by a French architect to the Administrative Palace of the Prefecture of the former county of Dorohoi, but its construction was completed only in 1887. It has 46 rooms distributed in the basement, ground floor and floor . The edifice has a central dome and two lateral turrets. The roof, originally made of sandstone (slate), is currently replaced by galvanized sheet scales (2003-2004). In 1953, the museum recorded 975 cultural objects in the field of archeology, history, ethnography, art, the natural sciences, and a number of 148 documents that were subsequently handed over to the archives. In 1955, when the Botosani Rayon Museum was established, the museum in Dorohoi recorded a total of 1,173 pieces. The museum currently has 21 exhibition halls (12 rooms with porcelain glassware and 9 halls with natural history exhibits), 1 hall for temporary exhibitions and other activities, offices, warehouses and a conservation and restoration laboratory. Contemporary art galleries sum up 651 glass-porcelain objects made at the former glass factory in the city under the auspices of a creative camp between 1985-1988, using the raw sand from Hudesti-Miorcani as raw material. The heritage of natural history sums up 285,151 items of scientific importance from all systematic groups: fossils, rocks, plants, mollusks, corals, crustaceans, echinoderms, insects, fish, batracians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Among the most important acquisitions are the entomological collection Prof. Ioan Nemes, a collection that has been cataloged as one of the first in the country from the scientific point of view and the number of copies collected by a single collector, the exotic pharmacist collection Weber Wilhelm, the collection of birds Exotic (Zair-Africa) Professor Rang Catalin, etc. The museum exchanges publications with museums from the country and abroad, which has led to a substantial improvement of the specialized literature, the museum library having over 6,000 volumes.

At Hiliseu Crisan one of the architectural masterpieces of Romania is found: The church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. At a distance of 15 km from Dorohoi, passing by the well-known fairy tales of Codrii Herţei, set aside for the hikers, lies the village of Hiliseu-Crisan. As you enter the village, coming from Dorohoi, you will find on the left a historical monument of category A of national interest. You will see an old church like the world, from wood, as rarely as you have been given to see. Decorated with special architectural elements, with saints watching the entrance wall and a bell tower just like Benedictine monasteries, these with baroque influences, typical of the West, are all very special for this area of the country. The 13 statues of the saints are of natural magnitude and represent the 12 apostles with Jesus Christ. The Church is unique in the country and in Europe, both in appearance and above all by meaning. Half the Catholic, the Orthodox half, the church is not just an architectural treasure, but also a cultural and spiritual one. Thus, there are united here, under the same roof, the two beliefs divided by the Great Schism of 1054. The wooden church was built in 1802 at the expense of boyar Vasile Curt, the then owner of the Hiliseu estate. Above the entrance door, under a series of floral sculptures, was dug in the light of the door 1802, May 21. According to the local tradition, the church would have been the core of a nunnery, set in the middle of the mosque. The church was completed at a later stage with the gate and wall of a new generation of the family of the property owners Alecu and Ana Curt. The elders of the village report that Ana, the wife of the boyar, was a Catholic, and the boyar was Orthodox ... so as not to quarrel with his wife, he made the bell tower and the Catholic fence. This bell is raised by Ana Curt, born Berneasa, (1832-1867), in 1858, with the funeral monument inside the church. On the southern side, the following dedication can be read on the southern side: <Aleco and Anna de Curt rulers of Hilisei doctrine this monumental to the mourners of their children Anna, Gheorghie, Alecsandru, Oto, Maria and Vasily, founded in 1858> On the east face of the monument are three plaques of marble written. On the left one can read: <Alecu Curt died in 1889, in June, the benefactor and master of these places ... grateful: Didina and Eugenia.

Gorovei Monastery is built on a monastery of Dragomirna Monastery. The monks found here an icon of Saint John the Baptist, which is why they built a wooden church during the years 1740-1742. The second church of Gorovei Monastery dates from 1834 and was built by the archimandrites Vitalie Lemnea and Macarie Jora. Gorovei Monastery was founded in 1742, when a monk in Dragomirna Monastery discovered at the root of an oak the icon of Saint John the Baptist after having spent three nights singing the tropic of Saint John the Baptist. Until 1775, when Bucovina was occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it served as a hermitage dependent on the Dragomirna Monastery, after which it functioned as a monastery under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Church of Moldova. The first church was built from the oak wood where the icon was found, being a small church that accommodated 20-30 people. In 1860, a new larger wooden church was built on a stone socket and a tumulus with the expense of the archbishop Chesarie Rezmerita, a metropolitan bishop of Moldova, a former living person of the Gorovei Monastery. In 1984, because the church was in an advanced state of degradation, a brick chapel was demolished and built in the same form. It was adorned with the fresco painting, performed by the painters Moldoveanu Ioan and his wife, Daniela, with the blessing of I.P.S. Father Metropolitan Daniel, most of the expenses being borne by Mihail Semenciuc from Candesti village, Mihaileni commune, Botosani county. The great church, dedicated to the Birth of St. John the Baptist, was built between 1830 and 1834 from the donations of the faithful, the Archimandrite Macarie Jora and Jerome Lemnea. The church is made of stone and brick, covered with galvanized sheet. Over time was repaired several times: 1869-1870, 1890, 1953 and 1992-1993. Because the church did not have a solid foundation and was placed on a piece of land with water infiltrations, general repairs were imposed. Since 2002, special works are being carried out at the foundation, wall injections, for the reinforcement of the vaults and the tower of the bell tower. The Archonocar was built in 1910, but it was modified over time. In 1980 the abbey and house of the bridegroom was built. In 2003 a bell tower was built at the gate of the monastery, where a museum will be arranged; Also, the authorization for the construction of a cell of cells was obtained. Although the monastery's dedication is the Birth of Saint John the Baptist, there is still a tradition in the tradition: the Spring of Tamaduirii.

Halfway between Botosani and Dorohoi, in Braesti, one of the most beautiful wooden foundations in this area is found. The churches, built in the first half of the 18th century by the boyar Miron Gorovei, may be the most successful wood plastering of the dibasia and gingasia of the masters of the past. You can not talk about the Moldavian wooden churches without keeping the place in Braesti, Botosani County. With modest dimensions, the church gathers everything that is most valuable as architecture and decoration in what we call generic wood art. Small, without imposing tower, with a ceramic decorated with an infinite, shallow and tender, wooden ladder supported by the roof, just like in the yards of the former households. Although listed on the list of historical monuments of category A (of national interest) in Botosani County, the Braesti wood church does not enjoy much attention in the tourist circuits of the area. Tourists arrive here very rarely, even if the monument is well signposted and is right on the national road connecting Dorohoi to the county seat. Architectural style The Assumption Church of Braesti is built of oak barns, attached to corners in pillars and placed on a foundation stone. The roof is dranita, laid in fish scales. Outside, you can see the open porch overlooking the bell tower. And in the tower, as in the porch, there are four simple sculptures, which support arcades of small size, decorated with the braid of the upper part. The pride, with great simplicity, seems to have been crooked in wood; So beautiful are the details of the decor, so graceful are the carvings on which the arches are supported. These, in turn, are proof of a special mastery: a beautifully curved acolada, symmetrically ordered and decorated with vegetal motifs. But one of the architectural elements that define the style of this church remains the entrance portal, decorated with 16 solar wheels (rosettes). Researchers Ioana Cristache Panait and Titu Elian noted, as early as 1972, in a study dedicated to the wooden churches in Moldova, this portal, which they considered unrivaled in beauty. In the front of the porch, above the arch, there is the inscription of the church's inscription, according to which the church was built in 1745 by the boyar Miron Gorovei. The interior, modestly, takes you to the early church. The nave is separated from the narthex through a wall of carved arcades, placed on solid oak poles. Of great artistic value are the decorations carved on the partitions of the partition wall, with representations of remarkable beauty: tulip flower and heraldic motifs. Perhaps the most important aspect worth pointing to is that the Braesti wood church still serves, even if not constantly. It was the only place that served the Braesti settlement until 1800, when the church was erected in the village.

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