Top Things to do in Sighetu Marmatiei
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Discover the best top things to do in Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania including MaramuresbyRadu, Maramures Tours, Pensiunea Casa Muntean Guided Tours Maramures, Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance, The Elie Wiesel Memorial House - The Museum of the Jewish Culture in Maramures, Sighet village museum, Cimitirul Saracilor, Memorial of the Holocaust, Cuiul, Piscina Sarasau.
Restaurants in Sighetu Marmatiei
1. MaramuresbyRadu
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5.0 based on 4 reviews
As I am not affiliated to any travel agencies you will find here the best prices, there will be no “economically driven advices”, and as all tours are private you have the chance to create the tour as preferred, even change it on the go. All the tours are carefully crafted, and art, tradition and culinary immersions are combined to offer the best experiences. Locals will themselves show their traditions and customs with no interference.
2. Maramures Tours
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5.0 based on 16 reviews
Join the most comprehensive tours around Maramures, recommended by Lonely Planet, Rick Steves Europe, Rough Guides and Routard.On the sights list are the most beautiful medieval wooden churches, traditional wooden gates, houses and little farms (with cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens), a selection of craft workshops (wood carvers, weavers, blacksmiths and others), amazing water powered machines (whirlpools, flour, fulling and carding mills), the best museums, beautiful points of view, Mara-Cosau-Creasta Cocosului’s ecoregion... The offer include more tours, like: On the UNESCO Trail, The Best of Maramures in One Day, Following Traditional Way of Life, Maramureş Walking Tour, Sighetu Marmaţiei’s Essential Tour, Maramureş Photo Tour and others.
3. Pensiunea Casa Muntean Guided Tours Maramures
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5.0 based on 10 reviews
Maramures Day Tour Maramures is the region where ancient traditions, the folk costumes and old art are preserved like nowhere else in Romania. Maramures virtually is a vast museum in open air. The wooden churches are true folk art masterpieces and the carved wooden gates need no special introduction as they have been the symbol of Maramures for a long time. You can visit the best of Maramures in one day tour: -Desesti wooden church 1770 -Budesti wooden church 1643 -water mill and distillery -Barsana Monastery -Merry Cemetery from Sapanta Price: -3 persons: 25 euro/person -4 persons: 20 euro/person
4. Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance
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4.5 based on 332 reviews
Reviewed By 295mariusm - Oradea, Romania
IIf you are interested in this subject, than is the best place to enter in a somber world of the crimes of the communist regim. Schedule at least 3 hours for this visit, because there are lots of informations to see, read and listen.
5. The Elie Wiesel Memorial House - The Museum of the Jewish Culture in Maramures
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4.0 based on 56 reviews
Reviewed By jdamianlapko
If you've read Elie Weisel you will immediately be moved to be in the at which he was born and spent his early years. Read "All Rivers Run to the Sea" before you visit for background information. The docent, Alex, was excellent. So sad that Jewish history in Romania is not well known. This small house contains a lot of information and is arranged as it was before WWII when a thriving Jewish population lived in Sigheti. Highly recommend.
6. Sighet village museum
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4.0 based on 60 reviews
Reviewed By roland_emil - Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Unexpectedly beautiful! Wooden and earth houses a few centuries old, from different corners of Maramures county. Small entrance fee (around 3 euros) and there is also a guiding app available (both in Romanian in English) which describes the architecture and history brilliantly. Worth a visit!
7. Cimitirul Saracilor
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4.0 based on 19 reviews
Reviewed By Tiberiu_Baranyi - Timisoara, Romania
In Sighetu Marmatiei there are 2 places full of sadness and bitter memories of the times when Communism was taking over Romania... (and was holding the country in its iron grip for almost 45 years)... that's one of those. This is another Cemetery - and I recommend you visit it before you go to the cemetery of Sapanta - but a very sad one. It was the former Cemetery of the poor in the early XX century , however after 1950 it was used by the Securitate ( the former secret police of Romania) as a place of burial - in unmarked graves or common graves - of those killed in the extermination (political) prison in Sighet. They've been doing this till 1955 and some of Romania's great politicians who opposed the party were buried here in secrecy , to mention a few : Iuliu Maniu (the great statesmen, artizan of the united Romania and enemy of the Communist ), Constantin C. Brătianu and Gheorghe Brătianu (prominent politicians and great minds who got killed by the Communists). Beside the politicians in this cemetery, somewhere, there are the final resting places of the bishops of the catholic church from Romania - imprisoned in the Sighet penitentiary, where they died of (un)natural causes. Communism for Romania was a plague and this Cemetery is a sad memento of the crimes committed and the final resting place of true Heroes of this country, Heroes who gave their lives for the ideal called Romania. The graveyard - since there are potentially hundreds of unmarked graves and several common graves - is surrounded by a hedge that is reproducing the shape of the map of Romania with the shattered crosses inside. This is to remind the visitor that people from all Romania were executed in Sighet prison. If you are in the area it is definitely a place where you shall go for a visit or if you pass by, just stop - even if it is only for a few minutes - and think, just for little while, about what this place represents.
8. Memorial of the Holocaust
9. Cuiul
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4.0 based on 1 reviews
10. Piscina Sarasau
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2.0 based on 2 reviews
Piscina Sarasau is a complex of 2 indoor heated swimming pools opened in 2016. One of the swimming pools has salty water which is beneficial for human health. In summer of 2016 we aim to open a 3rd swimming pool outdoor. The facilities are open all year round and everyone is welcomed daily between 10:00-22:00.
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