Our tours portofolio include televisions (“Travel Channel UK” and TV programs from France/Germany, Greece, Brasil, Hungary or Romania), photographers (like Rena Effendi), magazines (like “National Geographic Magazine”), newspapers, writers, researchers and diplomats…
Booking:
We propose tours all the year around.
For prices, booking requests and more info, please contact us or see Maramures Tours page.
For our guests of Amizadil House, we offer discounts.
Sample tours:
1. On UNESCO trail.
Eight old wooden churches from Maramures are protected by UNESCO World Heritage.
We can drive you around, and show you these outstanding examples of wooden architecture, a mixture of Orthodox and Greek-Catholic religious traditions with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque influences, filled by frescoes, wooden and glass icons, rugs and aprons made by local women, each church with its own story, legends and particularity.
2. Traditional way of life.
The tour takes you inside traditional farms, usually not open for tourists, where local people are still working their land like hundreds of years ago, making hay by hand and breeding cattle, in a subsistence economy. Their products (food, dairy, drinks) are organic, even if the locals does not care about it! You will also visit a weaver, a water powered mill and a whirlpool - where the people wash their rugs and carpets.
3. The best of Maramures in one day
The tour takes you to Sapânta Merry Cemetery and Sapânta-Peri Monastery (the highest wooden church in the world) – close to the Ukrainian border, pass through Sighetu-Marmatiei town, visit Bârsana convent (the largest and most beautiful in Northern Transylvania), stop at a wooden gates carver, a beautiful medieval wooden church, a loom weaver, two groups of water powered machines (flour mill, carding mill, fulling mills, alcohol distilleries and traditional whirlpools), and ends visiting the famous Breb village with its craftsmen and so-called “Prince Charles’s houses”.
4. Maramures’s Top Attractions” (2, 3, 4 or 5 days).
See “the most do” list: The Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa, Săpânţa-Peri Monastery, the Memorial of the Victims of the Communism and of the Resistance and other museums from Sighet, Vaser Valley steam train, UNESCO’s wooden churches, Bârsana Convent, but also Cosău and Iza Valley villages, food and livestock markets, traditional craftsmen and farmers…
5. Tailor-made tour of Maramures.
We arrange single or multiple day tailor-made tours for: isolated hamlets without electricity or road access, little known artisans (wood carvers, weavers, basket makers, blacksmith), water powered machines (flour mills, fulling mills, carding mills, whirlpools), Sapanta's Merry Cemetery, the best wooden churches, monasteries, museums (including private collections), artisans and traditional farmers, the place where the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz were born, and hikes on the search of extinct volcanoes, great point of views, remote waterfalls or pristine forests.
Booking:
We propose tours all the year around.
For prices, booking requests and more info, please contact us or see Maramures Tours page.
For our guests of Amizadil House, we offer discounts.
Sample tours:
1. On UNESCO trail.
Eight old wooden churches from Maramures are protected by UNESCO World Heritage.
We can drive you around, and show you these outstanding examples of wooden architecture, a mixture of Orthodox and Greek-Catholic religious traditions with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque influences, filled by frescoes, wooden and glass icons, rugs and aprons made by local women, each church with its own story, legends and particularity.
2. Traditional way of life.
The tour takes you inside traditional farms, usually not open for tourists, where local people are still working their land like hundreds of years ago, making hay by hand and breeding cattle, in a subsistence economy. Their products (food, dairy, drinks) are organic, even if the locals does not care about it! You will also visit a weaver, a water powered mill and a whirlpool - where the people wash their rugs and carpets.
3. The best of Maramures in one day
The tour takes you to Sapânta Merry Cemetery and Sapânta-Peri Monastery (the highest wooden church in the world) – close to the Ukrainian border, pass through Sighetu-Marmatiei town, visit Bârsana convent (the largest and most beautiful in Northern Transylvania), stop at a wooden gates carver, a beautiful medieval wooden church, a loom weaver, two groups of water powered machines (flour mill, carding mill, fulling mills, alcohol distilleries and traditional whirlpools), and ends visiting the famous Breb village with its craftsmen and so-called “Prince Charles’s houses”.
4. Maramures’s Top Attractions” (2, 3, 4 or 5 days).
See “the most do” list: The Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa, Săpânţa-Peri Monastery, the Memorial of the Victims of the Communism and of the Resistance and other museums from Sighet, Vaser Valley steam train, UNESCO’s wooden churches, Bârsana Convent, but also Cosău and Iza Valley villages, food and livestock markets, traditional craftsmen and farmers…
5. Tailor-made tour of Maramures.
We arrange single or multiple day tailor-made tours for: isolated hamlets without electricity or road access, little known artisans (wood carvers, weavers, basket makers, blacksmith), water powered machines (flour mills, fulling mills, carding mills, whirlpools), Sapanta's Merry Cemetery, the best wooden churches, monasteries, museums (including private collections), artisans and traditional farmers, the place where the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz were born, and hikes on the search of extinct volcanoes, great point of views, remote waterfalls or pristine forests.
