October 26, 2018
An Evangelical parish nowadays, the Carta Abbey was built around 1200 by Burgundian Cistercian monks.
October 28, 2018
Sighet Memorial. The dreaded Communist prison has been converted in a Memorial to the victims and the resistance against dictatorship.
Transylvanian Tours
December 5, 2019
Ilie Lazar, a proeminent interwar pro-Western politician from Maramures, Transylvania, was reburied as a hero during a military funeral service held in Bucharest, December 4, 2019.
November 4, 2019
Ieud Valley wooden church is famed as "The Wooden Cathedral" of Maramures for its slenderness and well-balanced proportions.
October 7, 2019
If hard working is a common feature in Maramures, for Ileana and her family is almost a like a religion.
September 28, 2019
“My poor mother-in-lawUnder this heavy cross you lie,And yet, if you had three days more,You’d be here too see me die.So, passer-by, do not disturb her,For […]
July 18, 2019
Isolated by the mountains, Maramures region was less affected by the Communist aggression and the madness of the forced collectivization, therefore it has better preserved old crafts, customs and traditions, and a strong religious devotion.