Many people can ask - smiling eventually - what one can find at Fundu - Moldovei.ro? If we should listen to the unofficial laws of the Internet, according to which an e-address must say a lot about what the site contains, so, the named address which makes you curious, should gives us few details: one of the first thing you are thinking of is probably a remote place forgotten somewhere at the end of the world… And an eventually immediate question can come subsequently: is a presentation on the NET necessary? In order to respond to such an question we have formulated a series of arguments which risen from the history, tradition and culture of these places and which can prove themselves to be the most adequate points of support during our steps forward.

Fundu Moldovei - far from being "the end of the world" - is part of the Romanian territory blessed by the crystalline waters of Moldova River, which passes through the Obcinele Bucovinei's landscape gifted with beauties by the nature.

Fundu Moldovei is a representative commune for the mountainous area of Bukovina as a most interesting ethno folkloric hearth, recorded such since the beginning of the century when it was chosen - at the historian Ion Iacob recommendation - one of the four guide datum points for the sociological research made by Dimitrie Gusti - first of this kind in Romania.

Fundu Moldovei is a conservative region inhabited by "highlanders", authors and keepers of a material and spiritual forms of life of their own; the commune is attractive due to its traditional architecture and wood civilization elements, due to the pastoral life and to other occupations, due to craftiness, garbs, customs, ceremonies, due to choreographic diversity of its traditional dances and popular songs, generally, due to its cultural life.

Fundu Moldovei is the place where the artistic assembly "Arcanul" activate - one of the most representative artistic bands in Bukovina regarding their performances (outnumbered prizes won at international festival in Holland, Iraq, Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary) and their origins as well (their forefathers danced and had successes in Vienna in 1908 and London in 1937.

Fundu Moldovei is the host for the Religious Songs and Poetry Festival "Buna Vestire" - patronized by the Archbishoprie of Suceava and Radauti - and which has as goals putting in value the orthodox traditions and the showing the popular art forms off.

Fundu Moldovei is the place where you can see different traditions and customs in forms as only the elders can tell; traditions and customs regarding the most important moments in life - birth, marriage and death - and some dates as well - especially the Easter (eggs painting, blessing the food at Passover service) and the Christmas and New Year (Christmas carols, "clopotelul", "buhaiul" in the New Year's eve, dances of the masks, of the goat and deer, the bear, the old man and the hag, the bride and the groom, the seeding, popular theatre, the star dance and song). Many of these customs are recorded in the archives of different T.V. stations in Romania and abroad due to their authenticity.

And even after a glance in our site you won't be sorry for the wasted time "cruising" on virtual Bukovina land at www.fundu-moldovei.ro we'll be happy that we've not troubled the search engines on the NET and the time of "internauts" all over the world and partly we've shown little of the beauties of this wonderful land called Bukovina.