I wake to the sound of crowing, clanking and lowing. As chickens peck in the dust just beneath my window, a dozen cows are shuffling through the village, their bells a discordant jangle. At each house ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Our drive from Baia Mare (the capital of Maramures County, one of 41 counties in Romania) to ...

VADU IZEI, Romania — Forty miles from the shops selling cellphones and bikinis on Bucharesti Street in the mining town of Baia Mare, Maria Stan sits in front of her house on a dirt street in the ...

Romania’s Maramures region may be modernising in places but take a walk in the countryside among forests, wooden churches and hay stooks and you’ll feel like you’ve stepped back in time Week 1: ...

Maramures (meaning “Big River,” for the Tisa River which flows through the area) is in northern Transylvania near the Ukraine border. Major cities are Baia Mare, the county seat; Satu Mare and Sighetu ...

A German couple who renovate abandoned wooden houses and rent them out offer a window on to a traditional way of life in the north of the country The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn ...

In the twenty-four years of my life I spent in Romania, I never had the occasion to visit a unique place in Transylvania called the Merry Cemetery. So, about two months ago, I called my childhood ...

Maramures represents a solid bridge between Romania and Ukraine, and the villages and communes in the county are home to over 30,000 ethnic Ukrainians, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan ...