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MARAMURES TRIP (One day trip)
Discovering the old dacians who smile in face of death
Suceava- Campulung Moldovenesc - Ciocanesti Village - Prislop Pass(1416m) -Dragomiresti village - Ieud and Rozavlea Churches - Barsana Monastery - Iza Valley - Sapanta Merry Cemetery - Sighetu Marmatiei.
 
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Ciocanesti House, Maramures
Starting from Suceava, this tour is covering 330 km scenic full day trip where you will discover the land of Maramures where the history and legends are so alive that the modern civilization could not spoil its genuine culture. The folk culture is present in every day life as it used to be in the old times.
  In the morning around 07.00am you'll drive toward Maramures region, a place where the purity of nature blends with the beauty of the old villages, a place where the locals
kept untouched their traditions, a place where the carved wood represents a common way of building. Driving through Campulung Moldovenesc and Ciocanesti village, where you'll be able to admire the locals’ houses and to visiting a typical one inside, passing Carpathians through Prislop Pass -1416m, the highest point of this trip, you'll reach Borsa village in Maramures. Here optional you can have a short break for meal at the traditional places famous for their "goulash".
Maramures landscape
 
Rozavlea Church
The first visit in Maramures is the Museum of the Peasant Women in Dragomiresti village. It is a traditional wooden house which belonged to a woman never married.

Next, you'll stop in Ieud Deal wooden church, UNESCO heritage. The interior paintings of the church form one of the best-preserved entities of post-Byzantine mural painting in Maramureş.
 
The paintings were made on pieces of textile that were treated with a preparatory layer of limewash and were then stuck to the wooden logs. After that we’ll drive to the nearby Rozavlea Church (1720). The church gives the impression of monumentality with its tall tower and its sharply pitched roof with double eaves. The polygonal chancel apse is covered with its own slightly lower roof.

Rozavlea Church Paintings
 
Barsana Monastery
Then we'll visit Barsana Monastery (UNESCO) a large monastic complex comprising of several wooden buildings, all constructed in the local style, including the wooden church The Gate Tower is the highest
wooden building from Europe.

After we'll passing through Iza Valley admiring the village with wooden gates, the wooden houses, with the local architecture and the locals.
Wooden Gate
In Sundays or holidays people wear traditional romanian costumes.
 
Museum
Museum
Then we’ll reach at Sighetu Marmatiei, where you'll find out something about the horrors of the communism regime. You'll visit The Memorial Museum of Anticommunism Resistance - a prison where during the passed
communism years many important Romanian leaders, and also common people who were against the regime, lost their lives.
 
Peri Convent
In the afternoon we reach at Sapanta and visit the famous Merry Cemetery, truly one of the most unique sites in Europe. It is famous for its colorful tombstones with native paintings describing, in an original
and poetic manner, the persons that are buried there as well as scenes from their lives. The Merry Cemetery became an open-air museum and a national tourist attraction.
Sapanta Merry Cemetery
In the same village, optional you'll stop to admire the highest wooden structure in the world: Peri Convent, recently rebuilt.
 
 
After enjoying a beautiful day, you’ll back to over night at Sighetu Marmatiei, where we may arrange accommodation at the best charges << check here >>, or back to Viseu de Sus if you'll desire to spend one more day in Maramures and to enjoy by  Mocanita Trip.
 
Important! At request we can organize your trip in Maramures to end afternoon on time around 16:00-17:00pm and you can catch a train from Sighetu Marmatiei or Viseu de Jos to the next destinations toward Cluj Napoca, Sighisoara, Brasov, Sinaia, Sibiu and Bucharest. Check here informations about trains schedule for this connection.
PRICE: 50 Euro/person, minimum 4 persons/tour.
Included services: Transport with middle class car or van.
Price does not include: entrance fees, foto and video taxes, meals.
We want you to pay the lowest price possible for your tour. Should you find your tour, with the same booking conditions, at a lower rate on the internet after you have booked, we'll match it. Just contact us within 24 hours of booking, with details of the website.
 
MARAMURES - BUCOVINA TRIP It's same tour described above, but start in Maramures and end in Bucovina- Suceava town or upon request may have over night at rural pension around Voronet monastery.
 
Why to Early Booking? Because if you travel single or in couple will have more chances to have o discount for your planned day tour. After your booking if we’ll have other tour requests for similar day we can offer a discount for you. Book now!
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Maramures Heritage Tour
 
 
BUCOVINA PAINTED
MONASTERIES TOUR
 
Bucovina Monastery Tour Bucovina Monastery Tour
On this tour you will discover the best painted monasteries of Bucovina, history of this land, traditions.
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MARAMURES TRIP
 
Maramures Tour Maramures Tour
This is a great introductory tour into the traditional life of the villages of Europe's last frontier: Maramures.
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ROMANIA TOUR
 
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God created the world in 6 days.
The garden He entrusted to us.
And you are welcome to explore it...
 
 
 
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Painted Monastery Bucovina
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