Community: Dolhasca
Dolhasca locality, relative recently turned into town (year 2004), is situated in an extremly beautiful natural place that unites almost all the relief forms, and for this fact the settlement comprises plain agricultural surfaces but also forest areas. The settlement is placed in the S-E extremity of suceava county, being crossed by the rivers Siret and Şomuzul Mare. Situated at the confluence of Iași, Botoșani and Suceava counties, Dolhasca is a settlement full of traditions specific to the Moldavian region, with traces of the early Christianity on these lands (Sf. Nicolae Monastery from Poiană – 1398, Probota Monastery).
Probota Monastery, built by Petru Rareș in 1530 and The Church with 4 towers, built by the nobleman Raftivanu in the XVIII century, both of them UNESCO monuments, are the greatest elements of pride for the people of Dolhasca.
History
The harmonic assembly of the elements of the natural setting, the climate and hydrographic characteristics, the flora and fauna abundance, have favored the presence of human settlements ever since the Paleolithic.
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Local resources
Besides the human potential in the locality, among the most important local resources the town of Dolhasca has, are the wide forests of beech and oak,hard essences, that represent a huge natural source of raw material.
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Traditions
The folklorical traditions of Dolhasca are tightly connected to the customs and habits during the winter time, when, with the ocasion of the calendaristic celebrations specific to the Chritians, take place free shows of the howling bands and mistrels specific to the Valea Siretului area..
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