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The Maramures province situated at the
Northern border of Romania with Ukraine, is 43 per cent a mountain zone
with the Rodna Mountains and their Pietrosul Massif (2.303 m) the
highest one in the Oriental Carpathians; 30 per cent are hills, plateaus
and piedmonts and 27 per cent are depression, meadows and terraces.
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.
The Maramures county has 62 hunting
grounds with a surface of 587,000 ha. There are also eight zones of natural
reservation.
The Province 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 uniquely in the world, distinct customs. Maramures
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. Unique in the world is the Merry
Graveyard from the village of Sapanta
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