Overview
The year 2024 marks the first edition of the International Festival of Culture and Traditions Lira Tracă și Taraful lui Orfeu in Polovragi, built as a public platform for musical heritage, crafts, and cultural tourism.
The programme combined historical reconstruction, workshops, exhibitions, oina, local gastronomy, and international guests, with the explicit goal of turning Polovragi into an annual landmark and a more visible tourism destination.
Photo archive
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2024 archive photo
Video
Lira Traca si Taraful lui Orfeu Festival 2024 - Video 1
Video preview from the event archive.
Lira Traca si Taraful lui Orfeu Festival 2024 - Video 2
Video preview from the event archive.
Events
TraciaLand Cluster • meeting point for the creative industries, agro-food, and tourism
You are invited on Tuesday, 27 February, at 4:00 PM, to the information session focused on the ongoing activities planned for 2024. • The network of local stores, a development necessity for everyone involved: farmers, processors, traders, consultants, marketing and branding specialists • The international festival of culture and traditions Lira Tracă și Taraful lui Orfeu • Funding sources, organisational models, digitalisation, communication, and strategic online and offline marketing Event moderator: Flaviana Rotaru, president of the Rohealth.ro cluster, will present cluster financing programmes for the 2022-2027 financial period and useful information about the importance of the creative industries as a smart specialisation domain. Address: https://maps.app.goo.gl/bUTgMPME9j6G8UVi7
First edition of Lira Tracă și Taraful lui Orfeu
The inaugural festival in Polovragi was conceived as a broad frame for Thracian traditional music, cobza, crafts, local products, and cultural activations capable of linking heritage to the local economy and to the region's tourism visibility.
Links
culturaromana.ro
https://culturaromana.ro/festivalul-international-de-cultura-si-traditii-lira-traca-si-taraful-lui-orfeu-va-avea-loc-intre-25-si-27-octombrie-2024-la-polovragi/
Festivalul Internațional de Cultură și Tradiții „Lira Tracă și Taraful lui Orfeu” desfășurat la Polovragi, județul Gorj
https://universul.com.ro/2024/10/29/festivalul-international-de-cultura-si-traditii-lira-traca-si-taraful-lui-orfeu-desfasurat-la-polovragi-judetul-gorj/
Festivalul de Cultură și Tradiții „Lira Tracă și Taraful lui Orfeu”, la Polovragi - GAZETA de SUD
https://www.gds.ro/Local/Gorj/2024-10-22/festivalul-de-cultura-si-traditii-lira-traca-si-taraful-lui-orfeu-la-polovragi/
Festivalul Internațional de Cultură și Tradiții „Lira Tracă și Taraful Lui Orfeu”, la Polovragi
https://www.paginaolteniei.ro/articol/festivalul-international-de-cultura-si-traditii--l_7714.html