Welcome to County Maramureş in the Maramureş region of Romania! Discover historic Baia Mare and surrounding villages, and understand the rich Maramureş culture unfolding in beautiful Maramures. Rest Romania will help you find the perfect hotel or B&B in our Maramureş Accommodation section, or a guest house or pensiune in a village nestled in the mountains. Explore all of Maramureş from Baia Mare to Sighetu Marmaţiei, and smaller charming towns like Baia Sprie, Borşa Cavnic Seini Târgu Lăpuş Tăuţii-Măgherăuş Vişeu de Sus. Communes in Maramureş county include Ardusat Călineşti Rona de Jos Săpânţa and the happy folk in little Moisei !
Travel by rental car or tour bus and train through the Maramureş region of Maramureş in Romania. Hotels in Baia Mare are well-priced, and great travel and tourism activities from shopping, to exploring the villages, folk art, castles, mountains and forests. See all of County Maramureş, from Baia Mare to Sighetu Marmaţiei, and smaller charming towns like Baia Sprie, Borşa Cavnic Seini Târgu Lăpuş Tăuţii-Măgherăuş Vişeu de Sus. Communes in Maramureş county include Ardusat Călineşti Rona de Jos Săpânţa and the happy folk in little Moisei !
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County Maramureş is
the crucible of Romanian culture and tradition. Not just the folk
museum kind, but a culture kept glowingly alive in the hills and dales of
this precious pocket of Old Europe.
The county is well known for its woodworking, from
impressive churches and houses and finely carved gates and totem-like
signposts.
The richest of these rural areas of the region have
few roads, which are often impassable to all but horse carts or determined
walkers.
Baia Mare
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County Maramureş is bordered by counties
Suceava in the east, Transilvanian counties Sălaj, Cluj
and Bistriţa-Năsăud in the south, and shares the
Maramureş region with County Satu Mare to the west.
Across the border in the Ukraine to the north of County
Maramureş are the oblasts of Ivano-Frankivsk and
Zakarpattia.
This county has a total area of 6,304 km˛, with 43%
occupied by the Rodna Mountains. The tallest peak is the Pietrosul
at 2303m, and the Gutâi and Ţibleş Mountains form the Maramureş region of
the Eastern Carpathians. The rest are either hills and plateaus or
valleys. The region is crossed by Tisa River and some of its tributaries,
the Iza, Viseu, and Mara rivers.
Demographics
In 2002, it had a population of 510,110 and the
population density was 81/km˛, of which 81% are Romanian, 11% Hungarian,
7% are Ukrainian and about 1.5% ethnic Rromas.
Economy
Maramureş is known for the persistence of its
agricultural traditions, largely unaffected by industrialisation. The
region escaped collectivisation under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu,
with the result that local people retain a very close relationship with
the land. Ploughing, planting, harvesting, hay-making and almost every
demand of farming are met by manual labour.
The region is a strong mining region - generally
metals other than iron; around Baia Mare some industrial complexes were
built during the communist period which heavily pollute the area.
Towns
The two main municipalities in County Maramureş
are Baia Mare and Sighetu Marmaţiei, accompanied by the
seven smaller towns of Baia Sprie, Borşa, Cavnic, Seini, Târgu Lăpuş,
Tăuţii-Măgherăuş and Vişeu de Sus. The county is dotted with
62 communes from Ardusat and Călineşti to Rona de Jos, Săpânţa and Moisei,
along with countless deeply charming villages.
Cars in Maramureş have license plates starting with MM,
and the dialling code to reach the county is (x62)
All of the phone numbers in County
Maramureş start with (262) or (362), depending on whether
the service is through the old state-run operator RomTelecom, or
from one of the newer entrants into the market in Romania.
Dailling to Maramureş, you must
remove any leading zero from the county code portion of the phone
number, so that (0262) becomes (262). Dialling a mobile
number, you do the same, dropping the zero from the (07XX) part of
the number, to make it (7XX). Both landlines and mobiles
have 6 digits following the initial county code.
Who would have guessed that in the capital of the land of wooden
churches and hearth of the the
Maramureşculture, you'd find speedy modern wireless hotspots?
Well, they're here!
Hotel Ambassador, 2 Moldovei Street
in Baia Mare
A rather impressive 4-star hotel with wi-fi,
conference centre, health centre and great restaurant. Visa, MC,
Amex all accepted. +40
(262) 250 242
FAX: +40 (262) 250 238
Oiţa Neagră
(Little Black Sheep Bar & Restraurant), 59 Victoriei
Street in Baia Mare
Fun little spot with bar and restaurant areas
and wi-fi for patrons. +40
(362) 805 619
This website is a
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understand Romania, and as such, provides historical
information for the interest of our traveller readers. History
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Traditional Dance in Maramureş
In the 10th century, County
Maramureş was a frontier county called Borsova,
which was founded by Stephen I of Hungary.
A bit later, historical Maramureş counties
separation from Borsova (city name Borşa shows connection with this)
In 1241 Tartar invasion killed 50% of the
population, and in the 14th century, Duke (knyaz) Bogdan of Maramureş
founded Moldova.
In the Middle Ages historical Maramureş county was
known for its rich salt mines and later for its lumber resources.
As a result of decisions taken at the Paris Peace
Conference (Treaty of Trianon,1920), the historical county Maramureş was
divided, with about three-fifths of its territory going to Czechoslovakia
and the remainder, south of the Tisa River (its left bank), going to
Romania.
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