Bicaz
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Bicaz (Template:Langx) is a town in Neamț County, Western Moldavia, Romania, is situated in the eastern Carpathian Mountains near the confluence of the Bicaz and Bistrița Rivers and near Lake Bicaz, an artificial lake formed by the Bicaz Dam on the Bistrița. Bicaz used to be a border town until 1918. Six villages are administered by the town: Capșa, Dodeni, Izvoru Alb, Izvoru Muntelui, Potoci, and Secu.
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 8,368 | — |
| 1977 | 9,477 | +13.3% |
| 1992 | 8,581 | −9.5% |
| 2002 | 8,911 | +3.8% |
| 2011 | 6,298 | −29.3% |
| 2021 | 6,106 | −3.0% |
| Source: Census data | ||
Economy
Before the construction of the dam (1950–1960), the settlement was just a mountain village in the Eastern Carpathians where the main economic activity was timber harvesting. By tradition, the tree trunks were linked together, forming a raft (pluta); a raftman (Template:Langx) used to drive the raft on the Bistrița River downstream to wood processing facilities in Piatra Neamț.
Building the dam also created a horizontal industry: two cement and aggregate plants were built in Bicaz proper and nearby Tașca. This, together with the construction of the Bicaz-Stejaru Hydroelectric Power Station (Template:Cvt to the east) triggered a relative economic boom during the communist period.
The Bicaz cement plant was shut down after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 and is slowly being taken apart. On the other hand, the Tașca cement plant was acquired by the German group HeidelbergCement and was completely overhauled.[1] The town has also a few timber factories and wood processing facilities.
Access
The town has access to two national roads: DN15 File:RO Roadsign 15.svg and DN12C File:RO Roadsign 12C.svg while Bicaz railway station is the terminus station on CFR Line 509 with scheduled daily service to Bucharest North. The town also served as a port with scheduled ferry service with the villages on the lakeshore in the 1960s and 1970s. Today the facility offers only seasonal leisure cruises.
Tourism
The town is located in the proximity of two important tourist destinations in Romania: the Ceahlău Massif (Template:Cvt north) and Cheile Bicazului-Hășmaș National Park (Template:Cvt to the west). The impressive Bicaz Dam built on the river Bistrița in the 1950s (one of the biggest in Romania) and the resulting Bicaz Lake are also popular tourist sights. Durău, the only ski resort in the Ceahlău Massif, is located about Template:Cvt north.
Natives
- Iuliana Paleu (born 1990), sprint canoeist
Image gallery
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Bicaz Dam, 127 meters high, built between 1950 and 1960 on the Bistrița River
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Night view of the dam
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Bicaz Canyon, a narrow pass linking Romanian historical regions of Moldavia and Transylvania along DN12C national road
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Romania - HeidelbergCement Group". Archived from the original on 2014-10-09. Retrieved 2011-09-14.
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