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TOURS

Medieval Cities and Maramures

Grand Tour

Diamonds Necklace

Dracula

Dracula classical tour

Castles, Legends, Monasteries

Fortresses of Wine

Gardens of Eden

Jewels of Bucovina

Medieval Cities

Birds in space

Romanian Legends

Humor Monastery

Voronet Monastery

Merry Cemetery Sapanta

Barsana Church

BUCOVINA - PAINTED MONASTERIES and

WOODEN CHURCHES - MARAMURES

7 days - 6 nights

Hightlights: Bucuresti - City tour – Fly to Bucovina

Route: Bucuresti

Parliament Palace, Patriarchal Church, Manuc Inn, University Square, Ruins of Old Royal Court (visit), Victoriei Avenue, Romanian Atheneum, Central University Library, Royal Palace, The Arch of Triumph, Museum of Romanian Peasant, Village Museum (visit), House of press, Herastrau Lake, Cotroceni Palace.

Overnight in Suceava

Hightlights: Painted Monasteries and painted eggs demonstration

Route: Suceava – Humor – Voronet – Moldovita – Suceava (150 km )

Humor Monastery built in 1530.

Voronet monastery with its blue outdoor frescoes, surnamed "The Sistine Chapel of the East".

Moldovita Monastery, 'A Parchment in Red'; built in 1532 by Prince Petru Rares. The outside walls are clad in frescoes. One of the most valuable scenes at Moldovita is the siege of Constantinople.

Viorica Sameniuc’s house in Moldovita village for painted eggs demonstration, a traditional art of Bucovinia.

Overnight in Suceava

Hightlights: Painted Monasteries and Black Pottery

Route: Suceava – Dragomirna – Marginea – Arbore - Sucevita – Suceava (155 km)

Dragomirna and its fortified monastery.

The Black Pottery of Marginea.

Arbore monastery, in lunching with the monks.

Sucevita monastery (1586) is a poem in green and light.

Special dinner with folkloric show orchestra and local dancers.

Overnight in Suceava

Hightlights: Maramures - Merry Cemetery of Sapanta, unique in the world

Route: Suceava – Sighetu Marmatiei- Sapanta (250km)

Infamous communist prison, Sighetu Marmatiei.

The Council of Europe designated the Sighetu Memorial as one of the main memorial sites of the continent, alongside the Auschwitz Museum and the Peace Memorial in Normandy.

’Merry Cemetery’’ of Sapanta, for a change of mood.  

Overnight in Sighetu Marmatiei.

Hightlights: Wooden Churches and craftsmen of Vadu Izei

Route: Sighetu Marmatiei – Barsana – Desesti - Vadu Izei (40km)

Maramures Wooden Churches were built in the 17^th and 18^th century without any iron boils.

The Wooden Churches have been classifed in the UNESCO Heritage since 1999, in order to protect their architecture combining orthodoxy with gothic influences.

Barsana  (57 m high ) was built in 1720. the tallest wooden churches in Europe.

Wooden Church of Desesti, built in 1770,  painted in 1780

Entering this church you will become fond of an enchanting universe evoked by the folks’ tales.

Lunch in Vadu Izei, a typical village where you can admire the wooden gates – the architectural tradition in Maramures.

Visit of craftsmen of Vadu Izei:

Vasile Apan, wood sculptor

Ioan Borlean, painter of icons on Glass

Ileana Borlean, carpet weaver

Maria Moldovan rugs weaver

Overnight in Sighetu Marmatiei.

Hightlights: Old steam locomotive and folkloric show

Route: Sighetu Marmatiei – Viseu de Sus – Ieud (80 km)

Steam locomotive, crossing the Vaser Valley and its unique landscapes. It is one of the most impressive narrow paths of the Eastern Carpathians, with mountains, forests, numerous waterfalls and mineral water springs.

Izvorul Cailor (Horses Spring)  and lunch near Rodnei Mountains Pietrosul Massif (Rodnei Mountains) – 2,303 m high and 10 km away from Borsa. This is the most important natural reserve (numerous glacial traces: ridges, valleys, funnels, and moraines). UNESCO has declared it a biosphere reserve.

Ieud - the oldest wooden church of Maramures, built in 1364. In its loft, the ‘’Ieud Codicile’’ with its 3 most valuable Romanian manuscripts was discovered, dating back to 1391.

Maramures folkloric dinner with orchestra and dancers.

Overnight in Sighetu Marmatiei.

Hightlights:

Route: Sighetu Marmatiei – Baia Mare – Bucuresti

Transfer to Baia Mare Airport (50km), flight back to Bucharest.

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 This program may be modified due to folkloric and traditional customs and feasts.

 Bucuresti - Suceava  by plane/train; Baia Mare - Bucuresti by plane/train; Bucovina & Maramures  by coach/minibus 725 KM