Tarcau Valley is a good weekend destination, in Neamt county, a good place for beach, fishing, hiking, with a potential still insufficiently exploited, despite the beauty of the place and the purity of the air.
Tarcau commune is southwest of Neamt county, at the foot of the Tarcau and Gosman Mountains and at the confluence of the Tarcau and Bistrita rivers.
In the rich cultural heritage of this area there are architectural monuments, memorial houses, museums, among which: Tarcau Monastery, "Iulia Halaucescu" Art Museum, "Assumption of the Virgin Mary" Church, "Saint Mina", "Tarcau", but also the Gosman Forest Reserve.
The Tarcau Valley is not devoid of legends, one of them being of the Balta catwalk. In Brates, Tarcau commune, still lives an old woman who was the wife of one of the members of Balta's band.