Agape Festival: Beloved clergy, families and slow travel enthusiasts will meet in the Silver Forest at Agapiatranslated

Families and lovers of slow travel ("leisure tourism") are expected, on the weekend of July 24-26, 2026, in Agapia commune, Neamț county, at the first edition of the Agape Festival. Beloved clergymen will participate, including Father Pimen Vlad from Holy Mount Athos.

For three days, near the Silver Forest in Agapia, festival participants will enjoy the picturesqueness and peace of the place, test local products and meet traditional craftsmen.

They will also have the opportunity to absorb the spiritual atmosphere for which German monasteries are known, through special guests - from Neamț county and beyond its borders.

The festival will start on Friday, July 24, at 17:00, with a picnic, followed by a dialogue with Arhim. Galaction Dominte, abbot of the Botoș Monastery in Ciocănești, Suceava county. The evening will end with a guitar recital offered by the "Strune de Lumină" Group.

Meeting with Fr. Pimen Vlad The next day, Saturday, will start from 13:00 with creative workshops for children and adults, followed, from 15:00, by a prayer of blessing and a concert of religious songs.

The main activity of the day will be the meeting...