ABOUT MARAMURES

Maramures is a county in Romania, located in northern Transylvania.Maramures is famous because of its picturesque landscapes, green hills and plains, full of flowers and express typical Romanian country life.Here, culture, traditions and lifestyle of peasants have been enshrined.Artisitice main occupations of the locals are sculptatul wood, weaving, pottery, manufacture of masks. Once arrived in Maramures, you really need to take as souvenirs masks depicting various characters from folklore and legends of Maramures.

A tourist attraction in this area is the wooden churches. Gothic churches have a unique style and very much impressed by the Bible scenes painted on interior walls of churches. These churches are not only monuments of art which can be visited, but also places of worship where villagers dressed in traditional clothes, go to pray. There are 36 churches in Maramures old wood, but only eight are part of UNESCO, namely: Barsana, Budesti, Desesti, Ieud, Plopis, Meadows Iza, sedge and Surdesti.

Also in the Maramures region, specifically in the village Sapanta, there is the original "Merry Cemetery", has already become world famous because it offers unique perspective on death. Elements that are so attractive that cemetery are represented, especially by wooden crosses, painted in vivid colors, but predominantly blue. Also, those crosses out a lot carved out by pictures depicting the main characteristic of life of the deceased, they are accompanied by short Poems trick in first person, as a confession of one buried there. So, the famous "Merry Cemetery Sapanta" is a sight worth seeing what particular style because it was created.

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