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Comanesti, a small industrial town in northeast Romania, attracts global visitors during the winter holiday season.The annual Dancing Bears Festival in Comanesti is based on a millennia-old tradition from the Moldavia region, featuring bearskin-clad participants.The festival begins before Christmas and culminates with a finale on Dec. 30. A small industrial town in northeast Romania may
In the winter, a small town in northeast Romania becomes an unexpected tourist hotspot as people from around the world flock to witness the annual Dancing Bears Festival.
COMANESTI, Romania (AP) — A small industrial town in northeast Romania may seem like an unlikely tourist destination, but Comanesti is where huge numbers of visitors from as far away
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A small industrial town in northeast Romania may seem like an unlikely tourist destination, but Comanesti is where huge numbers of visitors from as far away as Japan choose to spend part of the winter holiday season. They converge here to see an annual event that grew out of a millennia-old tradition in the Moldavia region: Bearskin-clad people of all ages, organized in packs, marching and dancing to the deafening sound of drums in several rows of gaping jaws and claws.