Maramures Travel To Europe
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Travel to Europe and discover Maramures,Romania and the beautiful places in this country.
Maramures is one of Europe's best kept secrets, a place where time stands still, a place where rural customs, traditions, and skills (in particular wood sculpting) and, last but not least, human kindness are well preserved.
Close to the Ukrainian border, Maramures covers 3381 sq km of valleys, beatiful villages, hills and mountains (as tall as 2303 m). In this small area can be found 5 UNESCO-designated World Heritage Sites (wooden churches), a natural reserve also protected by UNESCO, about 60 villages and small towns, the only narrow gauge industrial steam train still in use in Europe, and many other atractions. Places to visit:
1. Sighetu Marmatiei, with its museums and churches.
2. Vaser Valley, where a unique steam-powered train still runs.
3. The wooden churches protected by UNESCO (Poienile Izei, Ieud-Deal, Budesti-Josani, Desesti and Barsana-Jbar), erected between the 16th and 18th century, in the Maramures gothic style. These churches have been painted hundreds of years ago.
4. The Merry Cemetery in Sapanta, unique in the world, famous for its colourful tombstones with naive paintings describing, in an original and poetic manner, the persons that are buried there as well as scenes from their lives; today a major tourist attraction and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
5. The tallest wooden church in the world (78 m high, erected in Sapanta, between 1995-2003).
6. The Pietrosu Rodnei Natural Reserve, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (listed in 1980, although it was estabilished in 1932), part of the Rodna Mountains National Park; the reserve protects plants and animals such as edelweiss, gentians, marmots, chamois etc.
7. The Maramures Mountains Natural Park, the biggest and wildest natural park in Romania, covering 1480 sq km; the park protects 1260 plant species, bears, wolves, lynxes etc.
8. Breb Village, adopted by the HMS Prince of Wales (who bought here three old wooden houses).
9. Sarbi Village, which hosts a group of water-powered machines (watermills, thresher, alcohol distilleries, whirlpools).
10. Budesti Village, the best-preserved traditional Maramures settlement.
Music by Paula Selig voice, Paul Seling traditional flute, Ştefan Petreus violin, Andrei Petreuş guitar, Mihai Neniţă violin, Ducu Bertzi guitar.
Romania (#15): Wooden Churches, Ieud Deal
Ieud ... along the Ieud River, 40 kilometers from Vadu-Izei, is the ancient and beautiful village of Ieud. Archaeological discoveries show this village dates back to the Bronze Age. Ieud also has two distinctive wooden churches which have been declared historical and architectural monuments.
The first one is 'The Birth of Virgin Mary ' Church on the hill, built in 1364 and it is the oldest church in Maramures. It is built from pine and fir wood with small windows, double roof and a single, impressive steeple. The paintings are original, dating from the 15th -16th century and their condition is relatively good. The church also has a collection of glass painted icons. Inside, the stairs to the tower are carved in one piece of wood. 'Zbornicul' or ' The Book of Laws' was discovered in the attic, unique in the country and the oldest manuscript in the Romanian language printed in 1543 in Brasov. The church was closed for visitation.
Ieud is known for the preservation of its traditional customs as well as its traditional architecture. The people here dress and act the same as they did hundreds of years ago. Every year in July the people of Ieud celebrate with a multi-day festival of traditional culture called Ieud Cultural Days. Ieud is the place where a divorce and abortion has never been recorded.
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Hotel Secret Garden Maramures, Romania. Places to visit.
Hotel Secret Garden shows you places to visit during the holidays in Maramures, Romania.
- Wooden Churches UNESCO
- Merry Cemetery in Sapanta
- folk Art
And stop in a SPA modern Center at Secret Garden Hotel for relaxation.
Muzeul Mănăstirii Bârsana - Museum of the Barsana Monastery (Maramures, Romania)
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În anul 2005, la numai 10 ani de la reluarea vieții monahale la Bârsana, într-una din superbele construcții ale mănăstirii, a fost înființat un muzeu care să povestească despre istoria și tradițiile maramureșene. Este clădire superbă, care prin arhitectură și ornamentații se înacadrează perfect în stilul maramuresean tradițional în care a fost construită întreaga mănăstire. Muzeul are parter și două etaje. Chiar la intrare este un stand de unde pot fi cumpărate obiecte bisericești și suveniruri, dar în restul parterului sunt expuse icoane vechi și cărți vechi bisericești adunate din zonă. La primul etaj este o frumoasă expoziție etnografică maramureșeană, iar la ultimul etaj, singurul construit numai din lemn, o expoziție cu vânzare în care se găsesc icoane pe sticlă și alte obiecte realizate de măicuțe. Spațiul central al muzeului este larg, liber, deschisă pe toată înălțimea clădirii și creează o impresie puternică. Spre curtea interioară, dar și spre exterior (satul Bârsana) sunt amenajate superbe foișoare în stil tradițional.
In 2005, only 10 years after the revival of the monastic life in Barsana, in one of the magnificent buildings of the monastery, a museum was set up to tell about the history and traditions of Maramures. It is a superb building, which through architecture and ornamentation perfectly fits in the traditional Maramures style in which the whole monastery was built. The museum has ground floor and two floors. Even at the entrance there is a stand from where church objects and souvenirs can be bought, but in the rest of the ground floor there are exposed old icons and old church books gathered in the area. On the first floor is a beautiful Maramures ethnographic exhibition, and on the top floor, the only one built only of wood, a sale exhibition where there are glass icons and other objects made by nuns. The central space of the museum is wide, emty, open to the high of the whole building and creates a strong impression. To the inner courtyard, but also to the outdoors (Barsana village), there are magnificent traditional-style balconyes.
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Romania (#11): Harnicesti & Budesti Wooden Churches
The Church of the Birth of the Holy Virgin in Harnicesti ... Year built: during the 17th century. Harnicesti belongs to the commune of Desesti. It is situated 44 km northeast of Baia Mare, and 22 km south of Sighetu Marmatiei. Just as in the case of other churches, the construction has been modified in time so that its original aspect has been preserved only in part.
The church was much enlarged in 1893, when a new pronaos was added. The wall between the old pronaos and the naos was removed, enlarging thus also the naos. In 1911 a porch was added on the south side, in front of the entrance. The old entrance portal, fully decorated with carvings and colours, was moved to the naos entrance. In 1942 the interior was repainted and the old iconostasis replaced with a larger one. In 1972, the tower was moved on the new pronaos.
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- From Bucharest, Maramureş, going through Prahova Valley, Delta and going up to the Black Sea, we can find incredibly beautiful Churches, Monasteries, Chatedrals and landscapes, mountains watching the waters, plains, wealth land and people, people whose soul is great and generous. The soul of this nation need to be known; soul who wrote, write and will write history, sang, sing, and will sing ballads and doine, soul wept, laughed, was mocked and suffered and was glad. The beauty of this country was described in literature by Eminescu, Alecsandri, IH Radulescu, Fănuş Neagu and others either in prose or in poetry.
- Each corner of the earth has a story of dream, but you have to shoot, good with ear to hear and need a little love to understand it.
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