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Travelling in the Maramures (map):
It is hard to imagine, in this new millemium, a universe where a pristine
nature and live old traditions
can survive in such a natural way. This ancient country lays in the northern
Romania, surrounded by hills and mountains (Rodnei and maramures Mounts). Two
rivers (Vizeu
and Yz), form its symbolic landmarks.
Since their resistance to Romain invaders, the Maramures has been
called "land of the free Dacians". Its bare crests, its pasture highlands,
and its carved peaks, all of them attract the traveller on its trails,
either in the Maramures
Mounts, in the North-East, or in Rodnei Mounts, in the South-East, where
blossom the Rhododendron and the Edelweiss, established as a preservation
area in 1975.
Marvellous are the glaciarian lakes of Zânoaga, Pietrosul Mare,
Lezer, Buhâiescu, Lala or Vinderel, and no less spectacular are the
Iza cave, or water falls at Cailor. Volcanic hills spread their fantastic
andesitic formations. In the deep forests of firs, spruces, oaks and beeches,
lives a rich fauna, dream of any hunters: - bears, roebucks, deers, boars,
chamois or wood grouses.
The wooden handicrafts of the Maramures are famous, and the area
has been named «the Woodland». Its wooden
churches du Maramures are celebrated, with their shap spires
dressed toward the sky. The traditionnal
dress has a specific design for each village and valley. the loom
is still in use nowadays. One of the most unusual cemeteries on
our planet can be found at Sapînta,
only 8 miles form Sighetu Marmatiei: it is a large garden with carved wooden
crosses, painted with the portait of the deceased, and ornated with long
epitaphs.
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