Ovidiu Bozbici is a councillor
\nwith Bistrita Municipality<\/a>‘s Tourism Service. He suggested we should start
\nour tour with an iconic monument of the town of Bistrita. <\/p>\n
\n
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Ovidiu Bozbici:<\/p>\n
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We can start with Bistrita’s Evangelical Church which
\nhas a 75-meter high tower. It has an elevator since 2013, so visiting
\nfacilities have been made available for tourists. They can be taken at a height
\nof 45 meters, where they can have a bird’s eye view of the town. The
\nconstruction began in the early 16th century and lasted for about 50
\nyears. In time, renovation works occurred, on and off. At the moment, European
\nsources made possible the initiation of large-scale refurbishment works, still
\nin progress, with roughly four-million Euros worth of funding earmarked for
\nthis undertaking, and we keep our hopes high for the works to be completed by
\nthe end of the year.<\/p>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
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The Bistrita fortress is one of Transylvania’s famous
\nfortified citadels, alongside those in Sighi\u0219oara, Bra\u0219ov or Sibiu. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Ovidiu Bozbici:<\/p>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We’re next heading to Bistrita’s old
\nfortress, which initially had 18 defense towers and bastions. Placed at an
\nequal distance from one another, They were strategically buttressing the
\ndefense wall of the fortress. In turn, the defence wall was doubled by a moat.
\nAs we speak, only one tower of the old fortress is still standing, the Coopers’
\nTower, which is roughly 18 meters tall. It is an exhibition venue for the local
\nartists. Then we have the Sugalete compound. The name of Sugalete speaks about the
\nlodgings of Bistrita’s craftsmen, supposedly metal workers. It is a
\none-of-a-kind compound in Romania, made of a string of 13 buildings. The
\nconstruction began in 1480 and lasted until 1520 or thereabouts. Bistrita
\ncompelled recognition thanks to the precious but also semi-precious metal workers.
\nThe mineral ore was extracted from the Rodna mines, lying at around 60
\nkilometers from the town. Ancient documents have revealed that Moldavia’s
\nruling princes received their supplies of jewels, farming tools or weaponry from
\nthere. Speaking about Rodna we also need to say Bistrita was first documented
\nin 1241. So this year, in 2021, we celebrate 780 years since the first written
\nmention of Bistrita, which was made concurrently with the great Tartar invasion
\nof 1241. The Tartars got there, they tossed the old citadel of Rodna, then they
\nreached Bistrita, in 1241, killing 6,000 inhabitants. Which stands proof of the
\nfact that Bistrita was a densely-populated town.<\/p>\n
\n
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A string of museums can be found in the county of
\nBistritsa-Nasaud. They are well worth visiting if we want to get acquainted
\nwith the region’s generous past, but also to its crafts and traditions. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Ovidiu
\nBozbici:<\/p>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We have the County Museum,
\nwith its ethnography section, with a natural history section. We have the
\nSilversmith’s House, one of the town’s most important monuments, which has in
\nturn been refurbished and turned into the German Centre of today. It is a house
\nbuilt between 1560-1563, by the seme craftsman who also contributed to the
\nbuilding of the Evangelical Church. We have the Andreas Beuchtel House. It is
\nan old house as well, lying in the centre of the town. It was the property of
\none of Bistrita’s first sitting judges, who fell to loggerheads with the powers
\nthat be nd was subsequently beheaded. Also, Bistrita has compelled recognition
\nthanks to its multiculturality. We have the Evangelical church, Orthodox
\nchurches, the Roman-catholic church, the Greek-catholic church, the Reformed
\nchurch. Around 80,000 people live in Bistrita, according to the most recent
\ncensus. <\/p>\n
\n
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<\/p>\n
The visitors who are into tradition and folklore can go
\nto the commune of Salva in Nasaud area. The councilor of the Tourism Service
\nwith the Bistrita Municipality, Ovidiu Bozbici:<\/p>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Here they can visit
\nan exceptional ethnographic museum, and it is also here that you can find a
\nmuseum of the traditional apparel. The local woman artist, who is renowned al
\nover Romania, succeeded to preserve the old Romanian apparel, also
\nmanufacturing, on demand, peacock feather hats, which are very well-known in
\nRomania, Tourists can then go to S\u00e2ngeorz-B\u0103i. Here the mineral waters are
\nfamous for healing properties in the case of stomach conditions. If you want to
\nhave a good breath of fresh air, we have the new tourist resort in Colibi\u021ba, where
\ntourists can do nautical sports, mountain climbing or rafting. There is also
\nanother new resort in Figa Spa, in Beclean, lying 38 kilometres from Bistrita.
\nIts salty waters have healing qualities, there is also the mud, as well as the
\nnewly-built outdoor swimming pools, for which it has been officially rated as a
\ntourist resort of local interest.<\/p>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
Tourism is one of Bistri\u021ba-N\u0103s\u0103ud Municipality’s priorities. European funding has made possible the initiation of
\ntourism projects as well as the repair works for 12 out the 20 old passageways.
\nFor this reason, the town got its name of the Town of Passageways. Yet there is
\nmore to it than that. <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Ovidiu Bozbici:<\/p>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We have a large-scale project,
\nrunning as the Bistrita Fortress, where we refurbish the walls of the former
\nfortress and some of the main bastions. Then there is also the project
\ntargeting the Evangelical Church. That implies the complete refurbishment of the
\nasset, to be included in the tourist circuit afterwards. Another projects,
\nstill under debate, is run as Intelligence Cities Challenge. We thereby try to
\nrevitalize the historical center and make it similar to the center of a
\nmedieval borough. <\/p>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
For updated info on accommodation fees, personalized
\nroutes, maps and prospectuses you can stop for a while in the city center and call
\nin at the National Tourism Information Centre which is open seven days a week,
\nfor you.<\/p>\n
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