| GPS | (47.37437; 25.13095) |
| district | Suceava |
| region | Moldova Suliţa |
| locality | Lucina |
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| category | Traditional settlements for minority communities |
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| ethnic | Hutsuls |
Lucina is a locality famous for two important elements: the most valuable stud farms and the people living here are hutsuls. The Hutsuls are an ethnic group of Ukrainians living in Bukovina, their identity never being sorted out. The Hutsuls of Bukovina are a community of former forest people, who won their fame as isolated people in hard-to reach villages, surrounded by virgin forests. Their name is connected also to the existence of one of the most appreciated breads of horses in Europe, the Hutsul horse, which is believed to have been created by them. In Romania, the hutsuls have their own organization, UGAEH (The general Union of Hutsul Ethnicity) that initiated the Hutsuls festival, at Lucina Stud Farm in Moldova-Suliţa commune, famous for the Hutsul bread horses which are bred here. The festival became an annual manifestation, which is usually held in the first Sunday of July. The elderly know sings in a specific language, a mixture of words in Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, German and Romanian. The attics of the houses keep memories of the grandparents and grand-grandparents, wooden dried objects, in which they used to keep the milk or weigh the cheese. The young girls still wear national costumes of heavy cloth, with beads, sewn during the long winters, by the women gathered around the fire. The men carve wood fences, hatches and the decorated pillars of the houses. Together with their wives, they make cheese from the milk of the cattle which is allowed to graze freely. Now, the place of the fir thick forests was taken by large pastures on which the hay is gathered. A legend of the place says that the Hutsuls decided the place where to settle ”based on the power of the horses”. Namely, each came with his horse and his property represented how much the horse could encircle in one day.
