News Romania » Maramures: Romania: Maramures is a rural fairytale
I wake to the sound of crowing, clanking and lowing. As chickens peck in the dust just beneath my window, a dozen cows are shuffling through the village, their bells a discordant jangle. At each house ...
News Romania » Maramures: Maramures, Romania: Welcome to the heart of Romania, the land time forgot
You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Our drive from Baia Mare (the capital of Maramures County, one of 41 counties in Romania) to ...
News Romania » Maramures: The great east European road trip part four: Romania
Romania’s Maramures region may be modernising in places but take a walk in the countryside among forests, wooden churches and hay stooks and you’ll feel like you’ve stepped back in time Week 1: ...
News Romania » Maramures: Romania’s Maramures villages are a cultural time capsule
VADU IZEI, Romania — Forty miles from the shops selling cellphones and bikinis on Bucharesti Street in the mining town of Baia Mare, Maria Stan sits in front of her house on a dirt street in the ...
News Romania » Maramures: If you go to the Maramures villages
Maramures (meaning “Big River,” for the Tisa River which flows through the area) is in northern Transylvania near the Ukraine border. Major cities are Baia Mare, the county seat; Satu Mare and Sighetu ...
News Romania » Maramures: Verkhovna Rada Chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk calls Maramures unique bridge between Romania and Ukraine
Maramures represents a solid bridge between Romania and Ukraine, and the villages and communes in the county are home to over 30,000 ethnic Ukrainians, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan ...
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