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Maramureș


Maramureș is a county of Romania, in the Maramureș region. Its capital city is Baia Mare....

Maramureș is situated in northern Romania, and shares a border with Ukraine. And most importantly, it is one of Europe’s best kept secrets: a place where time stood still and where traditions, wooden art and human kindness seems to be miraculously well preserved. Located close to the Ukrainian border, Maramures covers more than 3000 km2 of deep valleys, beautiful villages, steep hills and impressive mountains (up to 2303 m high). There you can find over 100 wooden churches (among which 8 are on the UNESCO list), over 60 typical villages and towns, a UNESCO protected natural reserve… and the only narrow gauge industrial steam train still in activity in Europe. Notable visits include: the cities of Baia Mare and Sighetu Marmației; the villages off the Iza, Mara and Vișeu Valleys, the wooden churches of Maramureș, Lăpuș and Chioar, the Merry Cemetery of Săpânța and the Barsana Monastery.