Maramureş
Săpânţa village boasts the unique 'Merry Cemetery', famous for the colourfully painted wooden crosses that adorn the tombstones in the village's graveyard…
Must-see attractions in Maramureş
Memorial Museum to the Victims of Communism & to the Resistance
Maramureş
A prison for political prisoners right up to 1974 has reopened as the Memorial Museum to the Victims of Communism and to the Resistance. Photographs and…
Maramureş
This enormous all-wooden Orthodox monastic complex counts some 10 massive buildings atop a steep hill, including a beautiful church built in 1993, and is…
Maramureş
The late Jewish writer and 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was born in and later deported from this house on the corner of Str…
Maramureş
This wooden church from the early 17th century has some of the most dramatic (and best preserved) frescoes of hell you are ever likely to encounter. Look…
Maramureş
Allow two to three hours to wander through the incredible constructions at the open-air Village Museum, about 2.5km southeast of Sighetu Marmaţiei's…
Maramureş
Not a gallery as such but a garden workshop, this place is operated by master artisan Ioan Bârsan, who whittles wood and produces everything from life…
Maramureş
The Village Museum displays 15 traditional wooden houses (plus gates, barns and even a pigsty), for which the region is famed. The 16th-century Church of…
Maramureş
This tiny church, dating from 1800, is the highlight of Ţara Chioarului. It contains some faint interior paintings of St Nicholas to the left of the…
Maramureş
Built in 1683, this church is one of two in Călineşti and is more spectacular than the Josani one. It's on the right side of the road at the end of the…
Maramureş
Budeşti Josani church (1643) has four small turrets surrounding a bell tower. An 18th-century painting of the Last Judgment is among the church’s wooden…
Maramureş
This Orthodox church, built in 1770, contains interior paintings (1780) by Radu Munteanu that feature a harrowing glimpse of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Maramureş
One of the most magnificent churches in the Maramureş region, with a 54m-high steeple and splendid wall and ceiling paintings.
Maramureş
Sighet’s only remaining synagogue is north of Piaţa Libertăţii. It was built in the Moorish-Renaissance style in 1904. You can look around for free, but…
Maramureş
Looming above newly created Piaţa Cetăţii, this 40m-high Gothic-style tower dating from the mid-15th century once served as the belfry for an adjoining…
Maramureş
Many of the 53 political and religious prisoners executed in the prison that now houses the Memorial Museum to the Victims of Communism and to the…
Maramureş
This Orthodox monastery complex boasts a wooden church built with a nontraditional stone base. At 75m in height, it lays claim to be the tallest wooden…
Maramureş
One of three branches of the Maramureş Museum – the others are the Elie Wiesel Memorial House and the Village Museum – this ethnographic museum displays…
Ethnographic & Folk Art Museum
Maramureş
Northwest of the stadium in the City Park, this comprehensive collection in four large rooms traces traditional life in Maramureş from cradle to grave,…
Maramureş
Organise visits to the cemetery through the Jewish Community Centre. To reach the cemetery from Str Gheorghe Şincai in the centre follow Str Izei for a…
Ioan Stan Pătraş Memorial House
Maramureş
This museum, contained in the one-time house of Ioan Stan Pătraş, examines the life and work of the force behind the Merry Cemetery. It's about 400m down…
Maramureş
Founded in 1896 by the Hungarian painter Simon Hollósy and dedicated to the famous Baia Mare Artist Colony (Centrul Artistic Baia Mare), this museum…
Maramureş
This wooden church, built in 1717, is now Graeco-Catholic in denomination. It has no porch, a unique characteristic for this region, and the church houses…
Maramureş
Bârsana's Unesco-listed wooden church, which contains interior paintings by local masters Hodor Toador and Ion Plohod, dates to 1720. It is signposted…
Maramureş
Corneşti has a small 18th-century church with interior paintings by Hodor Toador. About 250m west of the main road and over a very shaky bridge, the…
Maramureş
This 17th-century wooden church is where the Ieud Codex, a document dating from 1391–92 and considered to be the oldest example of written Romanian, was…
Vasile Lucaciu Memorial Museum
Maramureş
This museum consists of both a series of rooms tracing the life and work of the priest/reformer Vasile Lucaciu (left) and the house where he lived for…
Maramureş
A Unesco-listed church dating from the late 18th century, it has a towering steeple and fine paintings of Christ's Passion, Adam and Eve and the…
Maramureş
This wooden church is famed for its fine, ornately carved wooden gate and 18th-century interior paintings, though they are not very well conserved. The…
Maramureş
This tiny wooden church was built by monks in 1633. If the church is closed, look through the window to see the original monks' cells on the northern side…
Maramureş
Hărniceşti is home to this marvellous Orthodox church dating from 1770. Reach it via a footpath from the main road that leads through a graveyard.
Maramureş
This delightful tall church next to the bus stop in the centre of the Valea Chioarului village has some decent interior wall paintings.
Maramureş
Dating from the middle of the 17th century, this church is about 1km east of the Călineşti Susani church on the road to Bârsana.
Maramureş
This tiny museum contained in two traditional Maramureş cottages is across the bridge from Ieud's Graeco-Catholic church.
Maramureş
This church, the first on the right coming into Sârbi, dates from 1665 and has two icons by Master Radu Munteanu.
Maramureş
This church dates from 1861 and has an unusually bulbous steeple, almost like an onion dome with a pointed top.
Maramureş
The Susani church is at the end of the village and 100m off the main road. It dates from 1667.
Maramureş
This Unesco-listed wooden church was built in Vișeu de Jos in 1690 and moved here in 1899.
Maramureş History & Archaeology Museum
Maramureş
This expansive complex focuses on archaeological finds from Maramureş, including the mother of all clay-pot collections from the Bronze Age; mining…
Maramureş
It was from this house (now a museum) in 1918 that the revolutionary Ilie Lazăr summoned delegates from all over Maramureş prior to their signing of…
