Piatra Neamt

In Piatra Neamt and the surrounding towns, many of the shuls had been built with age-darkened wood from the firs and beeches that populated the Carpathians.

The tenement had been destroyed in a fire two months before, and our friend from Piatra Neamt had been taken with it.

Breathing in the warm, musky fragrance, I remembered Piatra Neamt, the taste of cheese blintzes, and the crowing of roosters in the morning.

Ten people died in November 2020 after a fire engulfed an intensive care unit for COVID-19 patients in the northern Romanian town of Piatra Neamt.

Last November, 10 people died in a blaze in an intensive care unit at the Piatra Neamt county hospital.