3 Day Tour of Maramures

The world-famous cemetery is unique due to its lively, beautifully wooden crosses, carved with epitaphs and images of the deceased and painted in vivid colours, dominated by ‘Săpânța blue’. The epitaphs, some of them showing some humour, make up a veritable chronicle of the community in verse, proclaiming the virtues of the villagers, but not forgetting their vices.

This is the tallest wooden church in the world (75 metres high), placed in a beautiful place.

This is one of the most interesting and best documented Museums in Romania and it is considered the third Museum of the Memory of Europe after the memorial of Normandy and the memorial of Auschwitz.The Memorial of the Victims of Communism - Sighet is an old prison that has been turned into a museum. The cells are now exhibits in which you learn the recent history of Romania from 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It offers an analysis of the totalitarian phenomenon and the nature of Communism.

Visit the house where was born the famous Nobel Prize for Peace winner and the author of "Night" book. The place today hosts the Jewish Museum of Sighet, most displays being focused on Holocaust. If wish, visit also the Sephardic Synagogue, the Jewish Cemetery and the Holocaust Monument.

The most impressive monastery of Northern Transylvania, a huge complex all built in wood; beautiful landscape and flowers. In the same village, visit the largest wood carving workshop.

We will visit a lady who weaves woollen rugs coloured with dyes produced from plants and decorated with antique motifs. Inscribed in 2016 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the traditional wall-carpet craftsmanship is still practiced in Maramures. In the same village, we will meet people working on the fields, and see a mineral spring

Visit the only ceramist who still makes Dacian style unglazed pottery. In the same village, meet another special person, if available, who makes wool and sheepskin ritual masks. Plus meet a wood carver and a lady living in her 100 years old wooden house.

Meet some friendly Breb locals, including the village poet, visit a crafts workshop

Visit the best farm machines pulled by water, still operating for community needs: a fulling mill, a carding mill, a whirlpool, and an alcohol distillery.

See the Romania's most weird optical illusion. And a fine medieval wooden church. After that, return to Cluj-Napoca, where the tour ends.