- Tourist Information
- Map
- Tinovul, a unique habitat
- Poiana Stampei Peat Bog, the largest oligotrophic peat bog in Romania
- A wooden bridge through the forest with rare plants
- Drosera rotundifolia, the plant that eats insects
Tourist Information
| Type | Natural, Reservation, Swamp, Peat Bog |
| Part of | Wetland of International Importance |
| Opening hours/ Tickets | Any time (summer is recommended) / Free Entry |
| Getting there | From Vatra Dornei – Bistrita on E58 you will reach Poiana Stampei (after 20 km). After a while, you should turn left, following the sign for the village Dornisoara. After 4 km (maintaining the right direction) on a good paved road, you will be at a small intersection. Here you will see an information panel on the right side with the entrance to the reservation. |
| Location | Poiana Stampei, Suceava, Romania, Europe |
Map
Tinovul, a unique habitat
Once you enter this kingdom of nature, you will be captivated by its magical charm. The wooden bridge will guide you through the wonderful landscape of the peatland, revealing to you the colorful stories and mysteries of this special habitat. Each step will reveal a new surprise, a new life form that ingeniously adapts to this unique environment.
In Tinovul Mare from Poiana Stampei, you will find a corner of natural paradise, where time seems to have stopped. In the middle of this peatland, the specific flora, with its bushy and colorful mosses, creates a fairytale atmosphere. You will be enveloped by a deep silence, where the sound of nature blends harmoniously with the song of birds and the hum of insects.
Poiana Stampei Peat Bog, the largest oligotrophic peat bog in Romania
The peat bog is situated in Suceava County, north Romania, between the villages of Poiana Stampei and Dornisoara, 2 km from the national road DN17 Vatra Dornei, Bistrita Nasaud. The nearest town, Vatra Dornei, is 20 km east of the peat bog.
Tinovul Mare is considered the largest oligotrophic peat bog in Romania. Tinovul Mare’s scientific reservation from Poiana Stampei has a surface of 681.8 ha. The peat bog is a swamp, an area where the groundwater reaches the surface, and a specific flora is formed mainly of moss. The peat thickness exceeds 1 m and is still active.
A wooden bridge through the forest with rare plants
A 1 km long wooden bridge crosses the forest among the pine trees, mosses, ferns, and cranberry bushes. From place to place you will find written panels with pictures that will inform you about the specific fauna and flora.
Due to the acid soil, the pine trees in the Tinovul Mare have a slow-growing and the circumference of the trees does not exceed 20-22 cm. For this reason, the young trees can be easily confused with the old ones that can have even 100 years.
Peatlands are extraordinary and unique ecosystems: they purify water, absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and sometimes help mitigate the effects of floods (by the fact that the soil absorbs water) and rare species such as carnivorous plants or unique types of ferns grow in the peatland area.
Drosera rotundifolia, the plant that eats insects
Due to the nutrient-poor soil, the plants adapted, and thus the Sky Dew or Drosera rotundifolia, the plant that attracts insects and then digests them, was born. In the morning the plant secretes a viscous sap to which insects are attracted. The insects remain “stuck” in this sap and the plant then secretes enzymes to digest the insect.
Some of the plant species, such as moss Sphagnum Wulfianum and fern Dryopteris cristata, can be found only here, in Romania.
On the east side, the peat bog is bordered by a railway and a road.
