Ciocănești is a commune in northern Romania that is known for its traditional culture and architecture. The commune contains a 19th century wooden Orthodox church that is an important historical and cultural site. The local inhabitants have preserved traditional occupations like livestock raising and forest exploitation, showing their resilience in the mountainous environment. Their traditional costumes, houses, and crafts also help maintain the local ethnographic identity of the region. The commune is situated along an important road connecting northern Moldavia and Transylvania.

1. University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary
Medicine of Bucharest, Romania
Stanciu Marius Vlăduț, MIEADR-IMAPA, Group-8113
Ciocănești
In Ciocănești there is a wooden Orthodox
church, built in the nineteenth century, in 1859.
Common, rich and unspoiled keep funds
ethnographic, folk and testimonies about the
occupations of the ancient inhabitants of this
area, about customs and traditions, songs and
dances, folk art, artistic crafts.
Costume is specific ethnographic area of ​​the
country Dorna, which is distinguished by the
altitute female shirt, scarf on the head with
geometric motifs, woven skirt with
embroidered floral motifs âarste and needle.
The jacket is distinguished by white shirt with
white embroidery silk Itar wool and leather
girdle embroidered with colorful beads. As part
common to the male and female port,
distinguishes Bondi embroidered with colorful
floral motifs.
The inhabitants of these lands have enshrined
the traditional occupations: livestock, forest
exploitation, proving the resilience of the
population to specific environmental factors.
The houses in this area are the
individual zeaz by painting the
exterior.
Ciocănești, is situated on an important
artery of traffic, just in the middle
section which traverses mountainous
DN 18 through Prislop saddle of
Iacobeni -Step and connects the
northern Moldavia and Transylvania.
References:
http://www.ciocanestibucovina.
eu/descriere_comuna.html
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co
muna_Cioc%C4%83ne%C8%99ti
,_Suceava