Music, traditional Moldovan food and costumes have been celebrated today at the festival ‘Ia Mania’. ‘Ia’ is a traditional Romanian and Moldovan blouse.

The event has been held in Holercani village, Criuleni district and has got together tourists, handicraft people and artists from entire Moldova.

The attendees have exposed their national garments, manually made objects, jewels and trinkets. But ‘ia’ has been the star of the day.

The price of the blouses varies from 500 to 3,500 lei (25 – 170 euros), but the women could also buy shoes with national ornaments.

To have the fun complete, some amateurs started to dance.

The festival ‘IA MANIA’ has reached its third edition.