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MARAMURES
The Maramures county,
situated at the Northern border of Romania
with Ukraine,
consists in the old "lands" of Maramures, Chioarul, Lapus and Baia Mare Depressions.
Thanks to its richness in gold, silver, lead,
copper, salt, its large pastures and natural hay fields, forests and agricol fields, its fauna and flora, this county was
inhabited many millenaries ago.
The municipality
of Baia Mare
is the capital city of this county. Now, the population consists in Romanians
(81 percent), Magyars (10.5 percent), Ukrainians (6.8 per cent), Gypsies (1.3 per cent), Germans (0.6 per cent) a.o.
Of this surface of 6,215 sq. km, 43 per cent is a
mountain zone with the Rodna Mountains and their Pietrosul Massif (2.303 m) - the highest one in the
Oriental Carpathians and volcanic zones with the Gutai
and Jibles Mountains (1.300 up to 1.800 m above sea);
30 per cent are hills, plateaus and piedmonts and 27 per cent are depression,
meadows and terraces.
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In the middle of the Maramures, Rodna, Gutai and Tibles
Mountains there is the Maramures Depression, the largest one in Romania (75
km long and 20 km wide). Up the mountains the winter reigns till May-June.
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The picturesque lakes
situated near by the town of Baia
Sprie are visited thanks to their
beauty: Bodi-Ferneziu, Bodi-Suior,
Nistru Lakes, the Blue
Lake, the man-made lake of Firiza.
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The picturesque
lakes situated near by the town of Baia
Sprie are visited thanks to their
beauty: Bodi-Ferneziu, Bodi-Suior,
Nistru Lakes, the Blue
Lake, the man-made lake of Firiza.
Characteristically to this county
of Romania are the hydromineral sources (over 100 springs) especially the
ones near by Baia Borsa, Viseu de Sus. Baiut and Poiana Botizii.
The Maramures county has 62 hunting grounds with a
surface of 587,000 ha. There are also eight zones of natural reservation.
The county is rich in ethnographic and folk elements. The folk art is
preserved here as a very original form: houses, gates in wood, tools,
textures, pottery, churches built in wood uniqually
in the world, distinct customs.
The Maramures county has its gates opened to the
tourists who want to know its original folk culture: the museums in Baia Mare and Sighetu Marmatiei; over 200 monuments of folk architecture, the Borsa, Izvoarele and Mogosa Spas. Very original are also the villages situated
on the Iza, Mara, Viseu
and Tisa Valleys, forming real open-air
museums.
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Unique in the world is
the Merry Graveyard from the village
of Sapanta.
In this county there are eight museums, 67 historical monuments and sites,
363 architectural monuments and piles as well as 13 historic zones in towns
and villages.
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