Bucolic Maramures
€ 97
per personSet off for the land of wooden architecture: visit two UNESCO churches, enjoy the scenic countryside routes, admire the Merry Cemetery, enjoy a local meal, admire a traditional dowry-room, discover the village life, meet the joyful local people.
Travel Details
Destination
Maramures
Start / End
Cluj-Napoca
Duration
1 day
Service
guided
Seasonality
March - November
Tour type
discover
Departure time
8 am
Estimated return time
9 pm
Driving distance
500 km
Car transfer duration
7-8 h
Estimated tour lenght
12-14 h (depending on your interests)
Visits
Surdesti and Desesti wooden churches (UNESCO); Merry Cemetery in Sapanta; traditional dowry room; craftsmen
Notes
order of visits may suffer changes
Positioned in the north-western part of Romania, in a mountainous area, Maramures is a very special region, renowned for its living traditions, rural life, amazing haystack-spotted landscape, colorful clothing, party music and wooden architecture.
Beside visits and the ancestral landscape display, getting to meet the warmhearted locals of Maramures – this is the major pledge of this guided one day tour from Cluj to Maramures.
Cluj - Maramures - Cluj
Your guide will pick you up in Cluj at 8 a.m. and drive you to Maramures.
Your first visit will be that of the 18th century wooden church of Surdesti, the tallest of all eight wooden churches of Maramures included in the UNESCO world heritage list. Later on, take a walk in the best preserved traditional village in Maramures and have lunch with the locals.
Continue with the visit of another UNESCO wooden church (Desesti or Budesti). The unavoidable attraction in Maramures is the Merry Cemetery in Sapanta, an unusually colorful place, unexpectedly reflecting the love of life of the locals – that’s what you’ll discover in the late afternoon. You cannot leave the region before entering the house of a villager eager to show you their traditional dowry room.
Get back to Cluj in the evening.
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All prices are listed per person and calculated on an 7 participants basis.
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