The memorial house Mos Ion Roata was inaugurated on January 24, 1959, during Centenary Unification of Romanian Principalities, in the house where Ion Roata lived, in Gura Vaii, which is displaced to the road that connects the city Panciu to Soveja resort.
The house includes objects specific to social and familial environment in which Ion Roata lived. Also in the house are documents about the work in the ad-hoc divan of Moldavia (1857) as a representative of Putna peasantry.
Ion Roata was born in 1806, in Vrancea county. He died on 20 february 1882. Also he was known as Old Ion Roata, Romanian peasant and former deputy in Ad-hoc Divan and supporter of Unification of Romanian Principalities Moldavia and Wallachia.
