Travel Maramures, Romania

Culture and tradition in Maramures

Culture and tradition of the people of Maramures is known for its originality and the special nature of the inhabitants, their character is strong and very original habits that no longer meet in other areas of Romania.
Carpathians, Maramures is located at the bend so it is surrounded by mountains, forests and hills penetrated hard landscapes more or less beautiful.
In the Maramures mountains are caves, gorges, lakes and geological formations, some of which are protected areas, most notably the Tatars and the key mountain ridge roosters, and the Source Izbucul blue mountains Rodnei Iza.
Today 45,000 people live in Maramures Romanian!

Specific clothing

Traditional architecture

Point of interest

Merry Cemetery - Sapanta

Is a cemetery of crosses famous for its brightly colored, representing scenes from the life and ministry on which man has practiced in his life!
The crosses are written some poems about some people with a humorous character.
People here have a strong conviction that death is a very solemn event!
Cemetery has its origin in some crosses sculpted by Ioan Stan Patras in 1935 that carved the first epitaph and since the 1960s, the cemetery appeared about 800 such crosses carved in oak, making a unique outdoor museum with strong attraction.

Barsana Monastery

Located in the village of Barsana on the Iza Valley is one of the most beautiful monastery in Maramures and tidy, being visited daily by hundreds of pilgrims but also tourists from the country and abroad. It's definitely a place that you should not miss from any itinerary by Maramures.
  The church was used for monastic until 1791, when the monastery was disbanded. In 1802, the villagers decided to move unused church in the middle of their community.
The church was built of large oak beams on a foundation of massive blocks of stone. It has a rectangular plan with a polygonal apse altar, which is slightly narrower than the main body of the building.

 

Rodnei Mountains National Park

Rodnei Mountains National Park is the largest protected area in northern Eastern Carpathians, with an area of 46,399 ha, of which 3300 hectares were declared a biosphere reserve in 1979. The importance of this protected area is due to both geology and geomorphology of mountains and the presence of numerous species of fauna and flora, endemic and relict glacial.
In the south of the park there are mineral springs with therapeutic properties.
Rodna allowed the installation of a karstic caves represented by several outstanding: Zalion's gutter, etc. Schneider's bathroom.
Animals protected:
  chamois, marmot, the Carpathian bear, lynx, eagle rock eagle small, unruly dwarf , owl, white stork, herons, raven, capercaillie, black grouse.
  Protected plants:
  yew, larch, mountain peony, bison, edelweiss, narcissus, bubble mountain, cross Hale, studded yellow variegated tulip.