Maidens’ Fair

The Mount Gaina Maidens Fair, the most famous festival in Romania, is known as a major folk festival that takes place at the Mount of Gaina in Transylvania, Romania. It is particularly a fair that arranges marriages of young guys and girls that are unmarried. A gathering is assembled in which families gather together and celebrate along with music and celebrations, and the boys choose their future wives in the festival.

Not only marriage, the fair gives an opportunity to let people show their talent such as handicrafts, singing folk songs or dancing on them, designing costumes etc. Thousands of people gather in this fair as marriage is a ritual and they also have a chance to display their talent too.

The event, however, in the first phase has a dance competition in which dancers compete. After that, there is a concert of folk bands. Other attractions of the festival are the bonfire around which everyone sings the verses of folk songs in one voice.

Where: Mountain Gaina, Transylvania

When: July