Vatra Dornei

Vatra Dornei lies in a mountain basin where the Dorna joins the Bistrița, among the forests of the Eastern Carpathians. The settlement is first recorded in 1592, when the region belonged to Moldavia. In 1775 it passed to the Habsburg monarchy with Bukovina. Its mineral springs later drew visitors, and by the early nineteenth century the mountain settlement had begun to develop as a place of healing and rest.