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The area of Maramures this locates at the north of Romania, old territory of Daces free. In a rich, full country drills, wood makes it possible to the man to become artist.

The churches drink some with their acute bell-towers, very high, highlight the landscape especially in Maramures.

In the area of Salaj landscapes resemble Switzerland in miniature.

Among the mountains and valleys, in the villages with doors carved and houses well maintained.

Churches out of wooden of XVII and XVIII éme centuries more the share among it are in oak it who their allowed to resist the ravages of time.
With the length of the centuries them people built turns of day before in the bell-towers of the churches for to observe the possible attacks as of the enemies, the floods and them fires.

Very high roofs and the bell-towers out of arrow determined the specialists to speak "Gothic of Maramures".

The principal city east Baia Mare.

Maramures is one area where reign a single life style, a thousand-year-old civilization of drink and exceptional traditions very accurately preserved.

Traditions for folk costumes in black and red, for the music, and the reception cordial of its inhabitants.

But also by the merry Cemetery of Sapanta, a village of countered of Oas.

Who owes his fame has are "merry cemetery".
This one occupies the first place in Europe among the monuments and it is in the second place world afterwards the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.

The monuments are carved out of wood leaves the local craftsmen. Inscriptions and them highly coloured drawings illustrate with humour, of the aspects of the life disappeared.

Comic epitaphs in worms are engraved, the Master Ion San Patras, who A creates this carnival of death, is him also to bury in this last.
It is perhaps for that that death, such as it is presented on the crosses does not make more fear!

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