Sighetul Marmatiei

Sighetu Marmatiei It is the most Northern town in Romania, first stated in historic deeds in 1328. In 1406 it was stated again, under the name of "Plebans de Dyguet". The church in the middle of the town, built, according to some researchers between 1050 and 1150, was in the beginning a Gothic building; then it was subject to destroyal and subsequent rebuildings. This, together with the Baroc buildings that surround it, make Sighetu Marmatiei a picturesque and pleasant place to be. Among the interesting places to be visited, we can list:

  • The Reformed Church (16th century)
  • The Catholic Church (16-18th century)
  • The old city hall (18th century) that nowadays hosts the Estate Archives
  • Maramures Museum
  • The Ethnographical Museum with outdoors exhibits
  • The Merry Cemetery in S?pân?a Village (a cemetery where a local wood artist made some sculpted wooden crosses for the dead people, crosses on which he inlaid short funny poems referring to their lives)
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