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Two young people in traditional costume, a girl and a boy, stand in front of the culture house in Cioropcani; the boy holds a clay jug, a symbol of water and hospitality.
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In Cioropcani, a folk festival honoured the well-diggers: eight water craftsmen from four villages

On Sunday, 19 July, the village of Cioropcani hosted the folk festival “La Fântânița din Sat” (At the Village Well), organised by the Pîrlița District Culture Centre together with the town hall, under the auspices of the Ungheni District Culture and Tourism Department. Alongside traditional costumes and folk ensembles, the celebration brought an unusual guest to the stage: the well-diggers — eight craftsmen from Cioropcani, Pîrlița, Petrești and Zagarancea, the people who draw water from the ground. A few days earlier, the village’s young people had cleaned and whitewashed a well.

Ion Calmis·20 July 2026· News
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Young dancers in traditional embroidered blouses hold yellow bedstraw (sânziene) wreaths on the festival stage in central Ungheni.
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«Sânziene Unghenene» moves downtown for its 7th edition and brings guests from Romania

The «Sânziene Unghenene» folk festival reached its seventh edition on Sunday, 5 July — held for the first time in the heart of the city, in the Scuarul Înfrățirii square and Piața Independenței, after the May floods left the island on Delia Lake unusable. Alongside the Palace of Culture's ensembles, the organisers brought honoured guests from Romania to Ungheni, among them folk singer Crina Prața from Turda, Cluj county.

Ion Calmis·5 July 2026· News
Ungheni performers in traditional folk costume — white embroidered shirts, skirts with red stripes, men in hats and waistcoats — pose as a group in a park with green trees.
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Floods move the Sânziene Unghenene festival off Delia island into the city centre, on 5 July

“Sânziene Unghenene”, the flagship festival of the Ungheni summer, cannot return this year to the island on Lake Delia, where it was held in 2025. The Palace of Culture cites the aftermath of the May floods — and the footbridge to the island is still not ready. The 2026 edition comes down on 5 July into the heart of the city, to Scuarul Înfrățirii and Independence Square, with a procession, the Sânziene Hora, folk-costume workshops and the “Sânziana” contest.

Ion Calmis·21 June 2026· News