Community: Cândeşti
Cândeşti commune is situated in the North-Western part of Botoşani county and has a surface of 98 s Km.
The commune has in its components the following villages: Cândeşti, Talpa, Viţcani and Călineşti.
The region where the commune is situated is part of the Moldovenească Platform, an extension of the Russian Platform. The fundament is Precambrian, on which thick Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Neozoic sediments were deposited. The commune is morphologically situated in the Siretului Valley and on the Western side of Bour Hill.
Few regions of the country can boast about an ethnic mixture as complex as there is here.
Cândesti is proud also of the most valuable rower of our country, Elisabeta Lipa, who was born here.
History
Referring to the history of Cândeşti village, in the work “Documente romanice historica” vol I years 1384-1448 written by C.Cihodaru, I.Caprosu and L.Simanschi, the publishing house of the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, Bucharest 1975, Cândeşti village appears in a donation extract from 7 July 1430 in the time of t
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Local resources
The territory of the commune is situated in the area of interference between leafy forests and forest-steppes. Forests occupy small surfaces on the Călineşti – Talpa hills. The species that grow here are: common oak, hornbeam, lime-tree, maple-tree, acacia. The vegetation of pastures and hayfields includes species of borage, wormwood, clover
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Traditions
Few regions of the country can boast about an ethnic mixture as complex as there is in Botoşani county. As time passed, some ethnic groups were assimilated by Romanians, adopting even their customs, while others have „strongly kept” their traditions and carried them on till this day.
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