VALENTINE’S DAY … February 14 at Domnita Hotel from Poienile Izei, Maramures
♥ A good opportunity to make your partner happy.
♥ How you could be happy?
♥ Let’s think … A holiday with friends in the mountains? …
♥ A toast with champagne in front of a cheerful fire in the fireplace … a wonderful evening with friends to play with Horinca Maramures and plum?
♥ Yes it is! WONDERFUL! You can have it all!
♥ For that we create for you special offer for Valentine Day.

Along with renting the villa for you and your friends, between 13 -15 February, we collude to ensure a memorable party. So we are waiting for Friday night traditional music and of course a glass of Horinca, with glasses and bottles of champagne for the wishes, and when we think of a champagne is not only a well struck.

Imagine … you find a place away from the city routine, in a dreamlike landscape where the mood is at home!

And should not just be your secret! Can you come with friends. We promise that you come back one!
Restaurant: dishes from Maramures.
Festive evening with traditional folk music ceterasi
Salon penru meal
Accommodation:
- In the hostel in rooms with double beds.
camping-5 consists of terrace houses for 10 people with 2 bathrooms + grill + oven + place Guías

Facilities available:

Playground for children
Barbecue
Kitchen
Parking
Dining room
Tourism programs
Cable TV
Fridge
Turret / Terrace
Central heating

Package 3 days (2 nights) – 400 EURO with full board accommodation for 2 people
Package 4 days (3 nights) – 600 EURO with full board accommodation for 2 people

Contact:
Craciun Gheorghe
+40727689884
pensiunea_domnita@yahoo.com

DOMNITA HOSTEL
A modern building that respects the traditional style of the area, located in a very beautiful areas of Valea Izei. Great view of hills covered with pastures and forests is completed by specific sounds of a village: song roosters, horses pace horseshoes from passing carts on the street, distant low of cattle or Sunday morning, church bells that call the faithful to serve. No other building in the rear building, to the top of the hill, allow your eyes to enjoy the beautiful landscape.

Dates: 28/11/2009 – 04/12/2009 – valid for minimum 4 nights accommodation

Services offered:

Hostel House of Maramures
Restaurant: dishes from Maramures.
Festive evening with traditional folk music ceterasi
Salon penru meal
Accommodation:
- In the hostel in rooms with double beds.
camping-5 consists of terrace houses for 10 people with 2 bathrooms + grill + oven + place Guías

Facilities available:

Playground for children
Barbecue
Kitchen
Parking
Dining room
Tourism programs
Cable TV
Fridge
Turret / Terrace
Central heating

- Accommodation with breakfast 15 EUR / person / night
- Accommodation with full board 20 EUR / person / night

Rates for children:
- Up to 4 years – for free – just pay the extra bed is if he is ordered
- 4 to 7 years – 30% in the value for an adult
- 7 to 12 years – 50% in the value for an adult

Contact:

George Christmas

craciun_invest@yahoo.com

0040727689884

If you want to spend Christmas holidays in Maramures, a place in the tradition and history, where small Nativity carol herald dressed in people clothes, then you have found the right place at the Christmas House.

Services included:
- Accommodation room with double beds
- Full
- Dinner on the evening of Christmas
- Festive lunch on December 25
- Colindari the hostel
- Participation in the Christmas service on December 24 – St George

Rooms: 4

Seats: 8

Location:
- In the center of town

Breakfast, coffee,
Lunch and dinner with traditional holiday items. brandy from Maramures, wine, beer, at the discretion included in price
Mass of Christmas with traditional products
EXTRA SERVICES PACKAGE Children under 7 years have free accommodation and breakfast. For children 8-15 years pay 50% of the package.

Facilities:
- Pension has 4 double rooms
- Dining room 12 persons
- Cable TV
- Station with speakers for atmosphere
- Internet
- Parking (10 places)
- Sleigh ride

120 EURO for 4 nights / person

145 EURO for 5 nights / person

(Christmas mass is included in price)

The advance booking is paid 30% of total value

Contact:

George Christmas

+40 0727 689 884

The culture of Maramures is famous for its local specificity. The source of this original culture stands in the people’s attitude, as well as in the relative geographical isolation – the Northern bend of the Carpathians, an area surrounded by mountains with untouched forests .The ethnographic elements of the costumes, pottery, decorations and wood carving technique lead to the conclusion that a tribe of Dacians are the ancestors of those people.

The Maramures people had been led by local Romanian nobility, which in time was integrated in the peasants families; thus a new class of people appeared, free of obligations and duties. Their freedom, determined them to preserve and proudly promote their own values in construction, clothing, art and language. The first translations of religious texts in Romanian were made here, under the guidance of local nobles.

The legend of Dracula may be the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear somebody mention Romania; or you may think of other cliches, such as poor services or “an expensive destination”. We seek to promote a new Romania, to make you curious about visiting this beautiful country. By Trip to Maramures we try to draw you closer to the customs and culture of the Northern part of the country, an area where time seems to stay still, where everything is preserved and customs and rituals are still observed. We have built several packages for you, packages that are meant to fulfill all your expectations. We promise great quality at low prices. We will impress you with organic food courtesy of the hosts, cosy guesthouses and beautiful landscapes. We shall give you the opportunity to take part in the village life, wear traditional costumes, ride a horse, or even accompany your host to Sunday mass. It will certainly be a remarkable trip into the past. We are certain that any trip you choose will leave you with beautiful memories of Romania and will encourage you to come back in the future. http://triptomaramures.eu/about-maramures/ Maramures is a county in Transylvania, Romania. The county is composed of four distinct areas: Chioarului County, Lapus County, Maramures Country (Southern half of Historical Maramures) and Country Forests (Eastern), and the metropolitan area of Baia Mare.

Maramures is a country full of legends, rather you could say it is a land of story. Country Maramures is an area full of symbols, the link load we benefit, urging us to meditation and analogy. And the symbol as a sign of universal recognition, has a particular significance by the dominance of color, the wood and the center of the world idea, here, where he turned “living museum in the heart of Europe”, which is called Maramures, the bridge of light to which should be directed Romanian tourism. And signs of the times, Dear, look them in the traditions and impulses reborn other contemporary Maramures coordinates.

Closed between the mountains and did not want to hang anybody, Maramures have got over the times, to forge themselves from plates of who ate and clothes they put them to homes in which went live and churches that worshiped. In Maramures, today there are villages in which people take pride that they have kept together all the old crafts.
And because we are in the country, rather surprised that we were first of these crafts and wood carving. Beyond the practice of wood in Maramures is a way of expressing beauty. True, not every master has ventured its radical churches and monumental gates. But many knew and know how to carve tools, furniture, cases of dowry, domestic objects.
Over all, wood carving adorns the heads of the houses beams, doors and window frames, pillars gates.

These men have descended from the mountains and wood gave way, as only they knew. And as a reward seemed to care that he received a wood has remained firmly together, it has been the roof and protector. And pride when bystanders come and wondering the beauty and simplicity.
Even if the Maramures Country began to rise and modern construction, many peasants here remain faithful to wood. That only the wooden houses are those good and rest and loved.

Wooden Church Saint Parascheva: UNESCO monument dating from the year 1604, which is why very interesting painting unprecedented so far in Romania.

New St George Church, a building that many consider  a cathedral, after the greatness that is required. Here people are very faithful, there is no celebration when the church is not full of people dressed in costumes. It has a similar history master Manole Monastery, where he sacrificed a lifetime. It deserves to find out.

The Jewish Cemetery, Jews were buried here in 1900 who were infected with leprosy. Jews still live in houses, where locals are still alive.

Boiler Horinca (palinka), which is well known in the village because all the locals come here to do Horinca (brandy).

Mineral water springs that are rich in minerals, where locals  frequently to go home. They drink before and after meals because it is good for the stomach after saying their “well drops them for food”

Weaving workshops where women are woven wool and traditional clothing to men and children to wear them on holiday. It is a pride of new clothes to go out with the village on holiday.

Old wooden houses where the elderly live. When you enter into a old house, the man invites you to the table, gives you a glass of Horinca, you put on the table a bowl with horn, pancove and what is best in the house.

These are just some of the objectives to be seen, and not go unnoticed, landscapes that take your eyes simply popular ports, and daily activities of peasants.

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Sapanta Village, is famous worldwide for the orginal “Merry Cemetery” you are hosting. A different cemetery, with crosses painted in vivid colors that reigns over a particular blue, which long has the name of places: Blue Cemetery. Cemetery name comes from the many crosses and the colorful and satirical poems which are poems inscription on the crosses. Legend says the cheerful attitude in the face of death is usually one of the Dacians rituals who believed in eternal life and death for them was just passing to another world. They finally saw death as a tragic but as a chance to meet Zamolxe supreme god. Cemetery dates from the mid 1930s and is popular artist Stan Ion Patras, sculptor, painter and poet at the same time. Creativity’s of Patras revealed and celebrated this monumental masterpiece. More than 50 years the artist has created hundreds of crosses, wooden inscription in characteristic style. After his death in 1977 his work was continued by his disciple Dumitru Pop Tincu. The material used for the cross is oak which is the inscription by hand after it was cut and dry. At the top of every cross there is a baso-relief with scenes from the life of the deceased. The scenes are simple and I might even say naive style but without the past life of the village residents, present a relevant aspect of everyone’s life. They show women working with wool, weaving mats or making bread, men who chop wood or earth country, shepherds with their flocks, wood workers, musicians and many other occupations. Their drawings and poems Stan Ioan Dumitru and Pop Tincu Patrae and managed to recreate an entire village and gave people a second life after death. More than 800 painted crosses constitute a vast archive that preserve the history of the inhabitants of the Cemetery.

If you get in the Morosan, do not let you go with the empty hand. Batar (even) with some Slana (bacon) and pita (bread). On the table sits flush filled curechi (cabbage filled), and cheese, sausage, and pancove (cocoons), and scoverze (pancakes) with groştior (cream), and fresh goodies and what not, made only of their products.

In the maramuresan homes, polenta (Colesa) knows most diverse means. May take and instead of bread. Then make hominy by blankets, are made of hominy and meat balls, although it seems to be a sort of culinary extravagance, polenta with ligtari (jam) is a delicacy. Balmoşul’s specialty shepherds, but there is no need to climb to the sheepfold to taste of it. You get it cook and a housekeeper as she knows better.

There are various customs related to food. For example, the Saturday of Easter in Maramures is Pasca, a cheese bread made with 7 rolls gathered together in one tepşă (round tray). Bread must be made by a widow woman, and each roll to make a seal with pechetariul (a stamp-shaped wooden cross with the Greek mean). After Easter sanctifies grazed for three days to eat on an empty stomach before meals.

All this would not go well on the neck, if not take a det (gulp, gulp) the Horincă (brandy). Horincă, a drink of Maramures! Its production is a ritual of domestic arts. Men here are proud to take anywhere in the country was not better Horincă moroşene as in villages. Known and different evidence, testimony quality tests to make them. If you rub the hands a bit of Horincă, it must obtain a distinct odor, such as honey. Then, it poured in glasses, make a collar beads. What should take as you say an Our Father. Maramures are good believers, let us not forget that. And the mărgeluţele these are more frequent and more, the better it Horinca.

Welcome advice: to taste, keep a glass of water around, as you extinguish the fire in the throat.

We invite you to come in Maramures threshold at hostels in the area of interest, where to find a variety of traditional dishes, made only from natural products and its own garden. We guarantee that you don’t  regret, and we are convinced that one to come back the next time, because it places you at the guesthouse hosts not let you leave with a double, and you put bread on the way to not catch your hunger on the road.

Not for nothing they say “come as tourists and leave as friend” for Maramures are friendly people and humanity.

Vocal performing art requires beside love songs, longing songs, sorrow songs, songs for those who are in the army and outlaws, the traditional musical repertoire which is completed by carols, wailing songs and ballads. In Maramures, the virtuosity of instrumental interpretations, reaches sometimes unprecedented performance, by merg- ing the musical notes with the tonality of words, in a perfect symbiosis.

But what surprises today is that old habits were kept clean and alive in such un- expected places. Songs, dances, rustic costumes, food, pottery art and working with wood, churches, gates, crosses or household objects as skewers with bells or the seals, are a worthwhile topic of study for ethnographers in several countries, but also for the admiration of the visitors of the area.