Romania Guide
Maramureş
Romania has been described as a country with one foot in the industrial future and the other in the Middle Ages – still an accurate enough characterization of Maramureş, crammed up against the borders with Hungary and Ukraine and little changed since Dacian times. Within 30km of the heavily industrialized town of Baia Mare, thickly forested mountains and rough roads maintain scores of villages in a state of almost medieval isolation, amid a landscape of rounded hills with clumps of oak and beech and scattered flocks of sheep.
Highlights
1 Merry Cemetery, Săpânţa Exuberantly coloured and beautifully crafted wooden headstones in one of Romania's most unusual attractions.
2 Logging train, Vişeu de Sus Jump aboard the early-morning mocăniţa for a picturesque ride up the Vaser valley.