40 singers will perform on Valentine’s Day in Great National Assembly Square in Chisinau

A concert, in which 40 singers from Moldova will sing about love, will be held in the Great National Assembly Square in the capital on Valentine’s Day, which is marked on February 14, Info-Prim Neo reports. As interim head of Culture Division Leonid Gorceac states, Ana Puică, Aura, Natalia Gordienco, Serj Cuzencov, Adrian Ursu, Nelly Ciobanu etc., will sing the most beautiful songs dedicated to love and the beloved. Several games involving the spectators are planned within the performance. The concert starts at 6.30 pm and will end at 11.00 pm. The Valentine’s Day is celebrated in Moldova the 13-th year in a row. On this day the lovers give each other mutual Valentine cards, heart-shaped gifts as a symbol of love. The surveys carried out in the Western countries reveal that the number of sales on Valentine’s Day exceeds the number of those performed on the eve of Christmas. St. Valentin is a real hero, who lived in the year 200 A.D., in the time when the Emperor was Marcus Aurelius Claudius, who had issued an edict forbidding marriage. He felt that married men were more emotionally attached to their families, and thus, will not make good soldiers. So, to assure quality soldiers, he banned marriage. But St. Valentine was contrary to Emperor’s orders. Seeing the trauma of young lovers, he met them in a secret place, and joined them in the sacrament of matrimony. On February 14, 269, Valentine was executed and then canonised because he accepted to die for the triumph of love. In Romania, the traditional holiday for lovers is - Dragobete. A mythological hero similar to Eros or Cupidon, Dragobete is considered as son of Dochia, a handsome man but not as kind as St. Valentine. It is believed that Dragobete protected and brought luck to the lovers, and it can really be considered as a Romanian Cupidon.