The Maramures Land, situated in Northern Transylvania (Romania), close to Ukrainian border, is one of the best kept Europe's secrets. Here the time hasn't move in the past decades. Maramures is known as the 'wooden land', because nearly everything (from churches, houses or carts, to spoons,...

The Maramures Land, situated in Northern Transylvania (Romania), close to Ukrainian border, is one of the best kept Europe's secrets. Here the time hasn't move in the past decades. Maramures is known as the 'wooden land', because nearly everything (from churches, houses or carts, to spoons, cans or thousand of other things) is timber hand made. In Maramures are well preserved the ancestral traditions (some of them thousands of year old), the folklore and also the landscape. You can see there a couple of interesting museums (in Sighet town are the Memorial Museum, dedicated to communist Holocaust), Maramures Museum (displaying etnographical pieces and also an Open Air Museum), The Jewish Museum (dedicated to +40000 Maramures jews sent to Auscwitz death camp, included Nobel Prize winner, Elie Wiesel). In Ieud, Barsana, Dragomiresti, Sapanta and Tisa villages are also a couple of small locally museums. The best to see are the medieval wooden churches (eight of them included in UNESCO world heritage sites list). The best are Ieud, Barsana, Poienile Izei and Desesti churches, displaying wood carvings, old paintings and textiles. The accomodation is easy to find, every village has a network of eco pensions. Also you can find there a couple of hotels (in Sighet, Viseu, Borsa towns, or in Ocna Sugatag spa resort). Every year Maramures is visited by about 100 000 tourists, from all over the world.

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