MARAMURES County

Built in 1969, it is the first planetarium in Romania, providing daily presentations of stars and astronomical phenomena. Besides the scientific part, the planetarium also houses a rich and unique philatelic collection, gathering more than 650 stamps from over 65 countries. The collection is only available on request.

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Inaugurated in 1904 in the edifice of the city's former monument, the museum now houses various collections, including: seals, medieval guilds, weapons, clocks, photographic equipment, ancient ceramics, mining techniques, numismatics (coins, medals) and so on.

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Housed in an 18th-century building, the museum hosts a permanent exhibition, consisting of a rich and valuable collection of paintings, sculptures and graphics. These are creations of the well-known Painting School, an artistic organization that has recently celebrated 110 years of existence. Besides the permanent collection, reflecting different stages in the history of the city, the museum also organizes temporary exhibitions on different themes.

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Located across the street from the Ethnography Museum, it presents traditional wooden houses and authentic technical installations in the four ethnographic areas of Maramures. There is also a wooden church built in 1630 in the village of Chechis and brought to the museum in 1939.

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The beautiful paved alleys, hundreds of benches, promenade concerts, tennis courts, children's playgrounds and the lovable trainer are just some of the things that make the Regina Maria-Baia Mare Park a beautiful city card. It is the perfect place for a walk and because here, regardless of age, every boy can spend his time in a pleasant way, hundreds of spa or tourists can be seen in the park no matter hour or day. Grandmothers and children can sit together at playgrounds next to the senior pavilion, young lovers can stroll along the alleys of the park or sit on one of the nicely landscaped terraces, and adults have a wealth of options considering that there are two nearby parks museums, different tourist attractions, or can relax by admiring the surroundings.

The Park -Regina Maria-was always part of the preferences of the spa-lovers and because of its history. In the interwar period, Baia Mare was a quiet and peaceful city with a population of about 14,000 inhabitants, with a rich cultural and mining history. It was known as the "City of Painting School", and for the smoke of the landscape and for the bohemian and multicultural atmosphere it had been called "Barbizon of Transylvania". It had been declared a climatic resort, was visited by many foreigners, and the local authorities were striving to increase the prestige of the city through their actions.

Since then, the Regina Maria Park was one of the most important elements of the Baia Mare climate resort. The park was established in the 19th century and, until the Unification of 1918, it was named "Szechenyi". It was a real pearl of the city - visited by many personalities of the time - including the Hungarian novelist Jokai Mor. Moreover, the well-known local journalist Krizsan Pal speaks in 1933 in the work "The Mirror of the City of Baia Mare" about the tourist and cultural sights of the city in order to meet the wishes of the tourists who wanted to spend their holidays or our free time in our city, that the park came into being by successive yield of land in favor of the Town Hall. Thus, the middle part of the park was donated to the city in 1841 by the brothers Homoroy Ferdinand and Pal. The southern part, bought by a banker, Stol Bella in 1891 from the Virag family, eventually became the property of the City Hall. The northern part, owned by Karoly Laszlo, was bought by the Shooting Company and later sold to the city on the condition that a house was built.

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The most important museum in Romania has a vast and impressive inventory of moss flowers and gems from the Maramures mining exploitations, many of them rare or even unique in the world. Recently, a new exhibition wing was opened, where new flowers from the collection of over 16,000 pieces of the museum could be admired.

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The Breb Wooden Church is one of the most significant monuments of its kind in Maramureş, Transylvania and throughout the country, due first of all to the age of the construction structure, dating from 1622, the tower of 1531, the oldest preserved and firmly dated to the churches wood in the country, then the partly visible wall painting of 1626, one of the oldest preserved wooden churches in the country, the valuable collection of icons of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the sculpture with unique character of the vault beam, and through the archaic roof kept under the current one.

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The Dragomiresti Monastery is situated on the upper course of Iza, at an altitude of 500 meters, on a hill between Săliştea de Sus and Dragomireşti. The monastery complex is located in the commune of Dragomireşti, Maramureş County, 45 kilometers southeastern to Sighetu Marmaţiei and 33 kilometers south-west of Viseul de Sus.

It is a monastery of monks, re-established in 1990, featuring Saint Prophet Elijah (July 20) and Nativity of the Mother of God (September 8).

The first wooden church in Dragomireşti was built in 1772 and was moved to the Village Museum in Bucharest. The second church was built under the care of the monk Pimen Moldovan in the years 1926 and 1927. The church fell prey to a fire in 1949. A third wooden church was built between 1951-1957 in the village hearth. A monk community in 1990, built by hieromonk Sophronie Perta, is built around this chapel.

In 1993, the Casa cu Paraclis was built next to the monastery, which houses a miracle-working icon. The icon of Virgin Mary and Child dates back to the 17th century and was saved from the ashes of the burned church in 1949. The miracle-working icon has a peculiarity: the left foot of the Savior is in the form of a palm. The icon is unique at national level and it is said that those who pray to her are fulfilling their desires.

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Also known as the wooden church in Poienile Glodului, the church is in historical Maramures and was built in 1632 by the village community. The Poienile Izei village is first documented in 1430. In the Maramures Diplomas from November 24, 1430, June 18, 1450 and June 22, 1458, this locality is mentioned due to the establishment of properties, being attributed as a donation to a noble descendant. In the course of time, it was called Poienile lui Ilieş, then Poienile Şieului, Glodului, until the inspired name of the present.

It is easy to understand that, having been a community here, it was concerned with the construction of a church, fact which was documented only in 1604. It is worth noting that on the top, immediately below the cross, there is a metal clover, about which says it was placed in order for the church not to be destroyed by the invading Tatar and Turkish. It is known that in their incursion into Maramures, in 1717, the Tartars burned all the communities on the Iza Valley with their churches and their homes and took many slaves, escaping only the church in Ieud dated 1364 and that of Poienile Izei, protected by the Islamic crescent.

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The Barsana Monastery belongs to the Maramures and Satmar Episcopate and is located 22 km southeast of the town of Sighetul Marmatiei, at the exit of the village of Barsana, close to Izei. Barsana is among the oldest towns and is attested in 1326.

In Barsana there were two monastic towers: one in the south-eastern part of the border, in the place called the Slatina Valley (the Parrot of the Monk) and another in the south-western part of the border, on Humana Hill, at the valleys of the valley, The Court, and in the documents of the 14th century it is mentioned as the Monastery Valley. The horn of the monk's hair, dating back to the beginning of the 19th century. 14th century and quickly transformed into a monastery of the city, it will have been moved in the second half of the same century (to 1390, under the voivodes of Balcu and Drag), out of Iza, in the place called La Buri Stramtorii, later became the Monasteries).

 The voivodes of Balcu and Drag, to whom the boyars of the village also belonged, endowed the monastery with arable lands, forests, forests and other possessions, thus building the monastery, and the Barsana Monastery can be called the voivode monastery. In the first half of the eighteenth century, the monastery has played an important role both during the union and as the residence of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of Maramures between 1735-1740.

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This is where the well-known writer Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1986), lived until he was fifteen (1928-1944) before being deported with his family to Auschwitz and Buchenwald. The museum houses an important collection of photographs, furniture and other items belonging to the Jewish community of Sighetu Marmatiei.

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The wooden church in Hoteni was built in 1657 by the faithful of Slatina and was bought and brought here on Tisza up to here in 1895. It is a rectangular building with a roofed roof, covered with shingle and a bell tower with a gazebo. The church is used by Orthodox and Greek Catholics.

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Established in 1981, the museum is the largest and most complex presentation of the traditional Maramures village and of the folk art elements in Romania. The basic idea of ​​the museum is the grouping of households around the church, as in the villages in the county, all the streets leading to it. The church (built in 1621 at Oncesti) is located on a hill where it dominates the entire 'village', reaffirming its role as a central element in the life of the communities in the area.

More than 30 households (the oldest dating back to the 16th century) with traditional annexes and installations (grain, stable, well, oil press, carriage) and some of the houses have original furnishings and equipment (oven, pots, kitchen utensils, tissue warfare, children's swing).

Visitors will notice the different style of building houses and annexes that vary depending on the region where the household comes from and the building century. Thus houses from the Borsa, Ruscova, Mara-Cosau, Campulung, Tisza, Sapanta and Iza Valley areas can be admired, including Hungarian, Jewish or Ukrainian dwellings.

The museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00-18.00 (April to September) and from 08.00-16.00 (October-March). The address of the museum is: Sighetu Marmatiei, Dealu Dobaies, Nr. 1. For ticket prices or more information about the museum call + 40-262-314229.

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