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In addition to the construction of the "Nicu Albu" Public Garden and the transformation of the access road into a pedestrian alley, in 2023 the modernization of the viewpoint on Cozla Hill will also be completed. This has been and will become an important tourist attraction. The project for the viewpoint on Mount Cozla is in the execution phase and it is estimated that by the end of the year the project will be completed. Several works will be carried out, including a small playground (with hanging swings, climbing net) in the mezzanine, the extension of the observation area, the refinishing of the parapets and the mezzanine wall with natural stone. Also, the ambient lighting system will be restored and surveillance cameras will be installed.

Nicu N. Albu (1853-1908) was an important Romanian businessman and politician - mayor, prefect, deputy, senator, honorary citizen (posthumously) of Piatra Neamț municipality (1996). The new public garden at the base of the Cozla hill, which will bear his name, is in the process of being completed in the space of the old zoo. This will become a valuable place dedicated to both the local community and tourists from the city.

At Piatra Neamț, the first railway line was built to connect the city to Bacău under the law of May 15, 1882 and was put into operation on October 15, 1885. The first station of the city being currently called Gara Veche (located in the neighborhood of the same name). The Old Station building was built after the normalization of the Bacău – Piatra Neamț line was completed in 1893. Initially, the railway was built with a gauge of 1,000 mm., and the passenger building - inaugurated on February 15, 1885, was of the terminus type. Bringing the line to a normal gauge of 1,456 mm was carried out by engineer I. Bacalu from Piatra Neamț, and the works were led by engineer Romulus Băiulescu. The current Piatra-Neamț railway station was inaugurated on October 2, 1913 and is an important and valuable historical monument, being the work of the Italian entrepreneur Carol Zane, the one who also built other buildings in the city: the Theatre of Youth, the Precista Church, the Art Museum and the current headquarters of the Cucuteni Museum. A really important moment that had the CRF Piatra-Neamţ Station in the foreground was when the famous filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola was going to film here, in 2005-2006, several scenes from the movie "Youth without youth".

The Paharnicului House in Piatra-Neamț is a building with massive walls, on one level, built in the archaic style of inns with an interior courtyard of the 19th century, and it still harbors mysteries not clarified even today by German specialists or administrators. The Paharnicului House is also known as Paharnicului Inn, named after the rank of the owner, D.C. Gheorghiadis, who, according to the Official Gazette of the Principalities of Moldavia from 1853, was promoted sword keeper, and later steward, and cup-bearer. These were old, old houses, with a ground floor and a story, built after the old fashion, with balconies and cellars, with a spacious fence, serving more as storehouses for products. The ground floor features a portico of massive pillars and flat masonry arches, as does the fully vaulted cellar. Upstairs we find the large and solid porch, supported by pillars. The stone and masonry foundation is impressive in thickness. The interior space underwent further subdivisions and restorations, which correspond to the current commercial purpose", says the monographist Mihail Apavalaoaie, in a study published in 2005. Source: www.monumenteneamt.ro

On November 18, 2022, the Romanian Post returned to its customers a headquarters which is a historical monument in Piatra-Neamț. It is located on Alexandru cel Bun street, no. 21, and had been closed for 12 years. OJP Neamț, OPD Piatra Neamț and OP 1 Piatra Neamț resumed their activity in this building.   This heritage headquarters of the Romanian Post was built in the period 1932-1936. He was removed from the work with the public because investment works were needed that were started in January 2022. The value of these works amounted to approximately 2.7 million lei without VAT. Work was done on the interior and exterior architecture, roof, electrical, thermal and sanitary installations.   The General Director of the Romanian Post, Valentin Ștefan, was also present at the inauguration of the new postal subunit: "This year, the biggest investments were made for the Romanian Post in recent years. We wanted to return this symbolic building to our customers in Piatra Neamț, this being the largest completed investment from the company's heritage. We have beautiful headquarters all over the country, many of them in serious need of investments. Personally, I think we need to treat this kind of historical buildings with respect and preserve them with care in every detail."   Thus, starting from the end of last year, at the Post Office 1 Piatra-Neamț which serves, at the 6 counters, both individuals and legal entities, customers are welcomed in an office equipped with all the facilities, in order to make the work flow and waiting times more efficient, the quality of services being improved. Equally, this palace of the post office is also a tourist attraction.

The mission of an arts high school is not limited to the sharing of knowledge and skills. Such a vocational school aims to train personalities who, through a selection based on talent, assiduous study and obvious results, can live the art and make it loved by people. The need for a school with an artistic profile seemed natural, in Piatra-Neamț, after 1990. The city between the mountains and all the surroundings of Neamţ had rich folklore and literary traditions, publicly visible since the end of the 19th century. The famous conductor Sergiu Celibidache had started from Roman, from Piatra-Neamț the avant-garde painter Victor Brauner, the landscape artist Iulia Hălăucescu and, later, the well-known soprano Elena Botez (returned as a formidable singing teacher to her hometown, after the end of concert activities on the big scenes). Since the 1970s, however, a popular art school has operated in exactly the same building where the high school is located today, a school that adequately covered the vocational needs of students and young people in the area.  The High School of Arts in Piatra-Neamţ, therefore, was founded on September 1, 1991, with its headquarters in Strada Peneş Curcanul no. 6, but operating, in the absence of other available rooms, in buildings from various other high schools (The "Calistrat Hogaș" National College, The Technical College "Gheorghe Cartianu"). The name of the school unit was changed in 2004 (April 24), from "Art High School, Piatra-Neamţ" to "Victor Brauner Art High School", and from September 1, 2012 to "Victor Brauner Art High School", Piatra-Neamt". Today, the high school has 4 buildings located in three building bodies, within which the type of education offered to the children is harmonized with the vocational dimension. Thus, Building "A", from Peneş Curcanul str., no. 6 includes a number of 30 offices (for individual courses) and 3 classrooms (for collective courses) in which music students are trained, guided by 45 teaching staff, most of them tenured, with all teaching degrees given, some Methodists, some master's students, doctoral students or holders of the PhD title. The studio hall "Theodor Macarie" (with 120 seats, arranged downstairs and on the balcony) works both as a concert hall and as a hall for festivities. In these spaces, the sections carry out their activities: instrumental interpretation, vocal interpretation (classical canto), folklore (popular instruments and traditional Romanian canto). In the instrumental section, a number of 15 instruments of the symphony orchestra are studied (piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, guitar, flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, trumpet, horn, trombone, percussion) as well as 3 instruments of the Romanian traditional music (pan flute, cymbal, accordion). The general culture subjects are studied in the 2 wings of Building "B", located on Bd. Decebal, no. 48. They have a number of 8 classrooms, including ICT laboratory, methodical office, medical office, library (with over 9,000 volumes), gymnasium. High school students work in them under the guidance of 28 competent teachers (most with first and second degrees, two with PhDs). The students are divided into 20 classes: 1 preparatory class, 4 primary education classes (music), 8 secondary education classes (visual arts classes and music classes, one for each level), 8 high school education classes (4 visual arts classes and 4 music classes, same as in secondary school, one each of each level).The students carry out their activity during a day in 2 shifts. The activity of the specializations in visual arts takes place in Building "C" in Alexandru cel Bun street no. 2, a heritage building that includes a number of 7 workshops in which students are trained in groups, under the guidance of 8 teachers. The "visual arts" specialization includes the sections: monumental art, easel painting, clothing design, printing, sculpture.   Source and additional information: www.liceulbrauner.ro

The educational institution known today as the "Calistrat Hogaş" National College writes its history as a place of light from the year 1885, when it existed in Piatra Neamţ, as it would indirectly result from the last documents revealed, the "Culture", a private primary and secondary institute for girls. Social life in the second half of the 19th century is marked by a strong feminist movement, which did not remain indifferent to women's right to access education and culture. In German education, this tendency would occupy a privileged place. The initiative of Mrs. Ivanovici (sister of the lawyer Gh. Lazu, former sub-prefect and prefect of Neamţ) resulted in the establishment of the institute, which also had a boarding school and which operated in the former houses of Maria Albu - the current headquarters of the Territorial Agency of School Camps and Tourism. Since 1889, the activity has been led by teacher Elisa Udrischi, a graduate of the Conservatory in Dresden, assisted by Gabriela Bitrou, a highly cultured young woman with secondary education in Austria. The teaching staff who taught at this girls' institute were among the best trained professionally, especially pedagogically. In the lower secondary course, worked teachers Ion Negre (the director of the gymnasium and then of the "Petru Rareş" High School), Gr. Sinescu, V. Vîleanu, Gr. Istrati, Er. Zaharia, N. Juravschi, all with university studies in the country and abroad. The beginning of the 20th century is characterized by a visible animation of the scientific, cultural and social-political life, the deep changes being reflected in the life of education. In 1901, Ion Negre left for Bucharest (as a liberal deputy in the Romanian Parliament), being replaced by Er. Zaharia, and the school existed until 1910, when Elisa Udrischi was called to Iasi to run a music school. In these conditions, Eugenia Popovici, with a degree in letters, and Valentina Focsa, with a degree in mathematics, established, in 1910, a preparatory course for girls for the third grade of secondary school, authorized by the Ministry of Public Instruction and Cults, with results whose quality she was known and recognized. Thus, in 1911, with the support of the German parliamentarians and with the authorization of C.C. Arion – minister in the conservative government led by P.P. Carp, the private secondary school for girls with the state education program was established in Piatra Neamţ. Transformed, in 1924, into the Eugenia Popovici – Valentina Focsa Girls' High School, the school fulfilled its mission of ensuring equal opportunities in access to instruction and education, illustrating the progress of Romanian education, marked, a year earlier, by the nationalization of schools. If until this historical moment, the studious girls had taken their high school equivalency exams at the "Petru Rareş" High School, the right to education, existing and fulfilled in the old and prestigious school from the end of the 19th century, acquires its well-deserved status. Nurtured by the enlightened desire of the teachers and the young offspring to fulfill themselves through knowledge, the school that we call today the "Calistrat Hogaş" National College has been in existence since 1885 and was founded in 1910. From here, since then, its history springs ceaselessly and quenches the thirst for learning of the generations it has raised. Source and additional information: www.calistrathogas.ro

The Piatra-Neamţ Forestry Technical College, an educational institution with old traditions in the field of forestry, is among the few in the country, ensuring with professionals both the internal human resources required (represented by the National Forestry Authority - ROMSILVA, the Neamţ Forest Directorate and economic agents from the field of wood processing) as well as the European one. Graduates of the Technical College easily found a job in the European Union thanks to the fields of training related to the basic training: salmon farming, landscaping, utilization of non-wood forest products, hunting, carpenters, furniture designers.

"Petru Rareș" National College is a high school education institution in Piatra-Neamț, located on 4 Stefan cel Mare street, right in the heart of the city. It was and still is one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the city. In 1869, on November 27, the school was opened, with Ion Negre (the scientific part) and Calistrat Hogaș (the literary part) as teachers, the management being entrusted to the latter. The profile of this school being both classical (1869-1878) and real (1878-1897). The college building is a historical monument, registered in the list of historical monuments in Neamț County.