See Săpânţa's Merry Cemetery and Monastery, Sighetu Marmaţiei's museums and the food market

• Merry Cemetery

  1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket Included

  The world-famous cemetery is unique due to its lively, beautifully wooden crosses, carved with epitaphs and images of the deceased and painted in vivid colours, dominated by ‘Săpânța blue’. The epitaphs, some of them showing some humour, make up a veritable chronicle of the community in verse, proclaiming the virtues of the villagers, but not forgetting their vices.

• Sapanta-Peri Monastery

  30 minsAdmission Ticket Included

  This is the tallest wooden church in the world (75 metres high), placed in a beautiful place.

• Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance

  1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket Included

  This is one of the most interesting and best documented Museums in Romania and it is considered the third Museum of the Memory of Europe after the memorial of Normandy and the memorial of Auschwitz.The Memorial of the Victims of Communism - Sighet is an old prison that has been turned into a museum. The cells are now exhibits in which you learn the recent history of Romania from 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It offers an analysis of the totalitarian phenomenon and the nature of Communism.

• The Elie Wiesel Memorial House - The Museum of the Jewish Culture in Maramures

  30 minsAdmission Ticket Included

  Visit the house where was born the famous Nobel Prize for Peace winner and the author of "Night" book. The place today hosts the Jewish Museum of Sighet, most displays being focused on Holocaust. If wish, visit also the Sephardic Synagogue, the Jewish Cemetery and the Holocaust Monument.
• Accommodations

  Overnight at a 3-star or equivalent b&b in Breb