Development Agency of Harghita County

The Harghita Community Development Association (ADI Harghita) was founded in 2009 at the initiative of the Harghita County Council and with the support of 45 local administrations. The goal of ADI Harghita is to create and maintain long-term cooperations with the county’s local administrations and organizations working in the field of tourism, carrying out national and international projects, the purpose of which is to improve tourism, as well as maintain culture and the environment. At the same time, the association’s goal is also to protect the environment, popularize the county’s tourism, as well as launching services pertaining to the development of these. Since 2018, ADI Harghita also holds conferences and training courses to help the work, information and development of workers in the field of tourism, as well as people interested in tourism.

Five motorcycle clubs, one big festival!

Teatrul Tomcsa Sándor

The Gheorgheni Cultural Center was established in 2002, and belongs to the Local Government. We organise cultural and other events. Our aim is the cultural life organization and coordination in the city and the basin. Our motto is: ‘Community and culture, is the gauge of the future.’

The Arhaic band is composed of some of the "knights" of Romanian folklore, which, through their music, bring to the spectators, the sensibility, the romanticism, but also the sentiment of national identity. Theirmusic is inspired by Nicolae Dobos, Adrian Paunescu, Lucian Blaga, Ion Margineanu, Lucian Avramescu, Gellu Dorian, Vasile Muste, Gheorghe Pârja, Mihai Traista, Valeriu Armeanu, Ştefan Doru Dăncuş and many others.

House of Culture - Miercurea Ciuc

The Siculus Youth Center features an event hall with a capacity of 300 people and is equipped with a stage. The 2nd floor is designed for conferences for up to 70 people.

Called ”Szekler-Athens” in the last century, Székelyudvarhely is now the second largest city in the county, the center of the historical Udvarhely region and home to one of the most important intellectual scenes for the Transylvanian Hungarians. The town has 36.234 inhabitants, 96% of whom are of the Hungarian minority. The city lies in the southeastern part of the Transylvanian basin, at the upper reaches of the river Nagy-Küküllő. Udvarhely is surrounded by the volcanic Hargita mountain and its branches which form the Küküllő hilly country, with peaks such as: Szarkakő, Csicser, Nagyoldal, Budvár. Archeological excavations show that area has been continually populated for ages. On both Budvar hill and in the town center there are sites from the late Stone Age, Bronze-, Iron Age, Roman period and the Arpadian era. The name of the city was first mentioned in the annual papal tithes register of 1333 as “Uduorhel“. In the next century it developed as a market town and starting in 1448 appears in all documents as Udvarhely. The introduction of the Székely title is connected to Gábor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania (1613). The community was exempted from all kinds of taxes and expenses forever by Queen Izabella in 1557. The queen again confirmed these privileges in 1558 and endowed the town with a seal and coat of arms consisting of an armored right hand holding a sharp dagger, with a bear head, a heart and a crown surrounded by four starts and the date 1558. The inscription on the seal was: Sigillum Oppidi Siculicalis Udvarhely.

The Harghita Business Center Intercommunity Development Association business incubator will foster entrepreneurship and serve start-up businesses in the region of Odorheiu-Secuiesc with mentoring, flexible space, access to an innovative ecosystem and other business services designed to accelerate their success.