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The Best Attractions In Baia Sprie

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Baia Sprie is a town in the Maramureş County, northern Romania. The Hungarian version of the town's name means Upper Mine. Baia Sprie is situated at a distance of 9 km from Baia Mare. The town administers three villages: Chiuzbaia , Satu Nou de Sus and Tăuții de Sus . Neighbouring communities are the city of Baia Mare and the villages of Groși, Dumbrăvița, Șisești and Desești. The town was one of the most important mining centers in north-western Romania, exploitation of gold and silver being mentioned in documents written around 1411, the time when the Saxons colonized the region. However, recent administrative changes and restructuring of th...
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  • 2. Merry Cemetery Sapanta
    The Merry Cemetery is a cemetery in the village of Săpânța, Maramureş county, Romania. It is famous for its colourful tombstones with naïve paintings describing, in an original and poetic manner, the people who are buried there as well as scenes from their lives. The Merry Cemetery became an open-air museum and a national tourist attraction. The unusual feature of this cemetery is that it diverges from the prevalent belief, culturally shared within European societies – a belief that views death as something indelibly solemn. Connections with the local Dacian culture have been made, a culture whose philosophical tenets presumably vouched for the immortality of the soul and the belief that death was a moment filled with joy and anticipation for a better life . A collection of the epit...
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  • 3. Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance Sighetu Marmatiei
    The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance in Romania consists of the Sighet Museum and the International Centre for Studies into Communism.
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  • 4. Barsana Monastery Barsana
    Bârsana is a commune in Maramureș County, Romania. It is composed of two villages, Bârsana and Nănești . It also included Oncești village until 2004, when it was split off to form a separate commune. As of 2002, Bârsana had 6,352 inhabitants, all but ten of whom were ethnic Romanians. 86.7% were Romanian Orthodox, 7.8% Greek-Catholic and 3.1% Pentecostal. Bârsana's Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple is one of eight Wooden Churches of Maramureș listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, another wooden monastery was built in Bârsana.
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  • 6. Church of the Holy Archangels Rogoz
    The Church of the Holy Archangels is one of eight Wooden Churches of Maramureş in Romania listed as a UNESCO world heritage site in December 1999. The structure is in the village of Rogoz in the Lăpuș River valley within the mountainous area of northern Transylvania.
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