Sighetu Marmatiei Travel Guide

 Jetgirly Says:  While the Roman Catholic Church may be the second-largest in Romania, the Roman Catholic Church building in Sighet is easily the town's largest and most imposing church. Built in the 1700s, this Baroque church looms over Piata Libertatii and features a unique sun clock... 

 Jetgirly Says:  The Hungarian Reformed Church (also called the Calvinist Church) in Sighet is the city's oldest surviving original building. Today visitors can enter the building to see it's simple interior. As I mentioned in an earlier tip, control of Sighet has, throughout history, been... 

 Jetgirly Says:  Located at the west end of Piata Libertatii, the Hungarian Monument is a stark black and white reminder of the city's history. From the 1300s to the 1700s the city was passed back-and-forth between Transylvanian and Hungarian hands. After World War I it became part of... 

 Jetgirly Says:  The market ("Piata Agroalimentara") in Sighet is a great place to explore. And I recommend you go while you can, because the whole place seems to be sinking! I visited after a prolonged period of heavy rains in the summer, and there were dangerous-looking sinkholes all over... 

 Jetgirly Says:  Sighet's city center is a mere two kilometres from the Ukrainian border, meaning intrepid travelers can WALK to another country! Coming from Canada, where you can be 2,000 kilometres (or more) from the nearest border crossing, walking to another country seems pretty cool!To... 

 Jetgirly Says:  While you're visiting the Merry Cemetery and its carver's home in Săpânţa, make sure to take a wander up and down the village roads. This is a great opportunity to familiarize yourself with some of the area's unique architecture. Some of the stand-out features of... 

 Jetgirly Says:  Only a few blocks from the Merry Cemetery in Săpânţa (oh, and that's pronounced "sa-POONT-suh") you will find the residence of the cemetery's current carver- Dumitru Pop. The exterior of the house is beautifully decorated and features a traditional wooden gate... 

 Jetgirly Says:  Twelve kilometres down the road from Sighet lies the little village of Săpânţa, famed internationally for its Merry Cemetery (Cimitirul Vesel). This cemetery is a must-see stop on your tour of Romania.All the way back in the 1930s, Stan Ioan Patras began carving... 

 Jetgirly Says:  Elie Wiesel is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning writer, activist and Holocaust survivor. He was born in Sighet, and today his childhood home is a museum that exhibits memorabilia from Wiesel's distinguished life. When I visited I was the only guest, and a young employee was happy... 

 Jetgirly Says:  Consuela Restaurant came highly recommended by the owner of Cobwobs Hostel. In the end our meal turned into something of a comedy of errors, as they seemed to be lacking all of the ingredients necessary to make the vegetarian pizza listed on their menu. Yes, the pizza I was... 

 Jetgirly Says:  Throught Sighet you'll find a numerous bakeries dishing up hot, fresh placinta. That's placinta, not placenta (though one look and you'll be able to guess where the name came from!). Placinta roughly translates to "pancakes", but in fact they are puffy pieces of deep-fried... 

 Jetgirly Says:  Sighet is a city that knows how to do "mancare de post" right. Mancare de post is the vegan food that Orthodox Romanians often eat during periods of fasting, which often occur every Wednesday and Sunday, but can also stretch on for weeks at a time before important religious... 

 lotharscheer Says:  There is a direct bus from Budapest, fridays only, 10 hours.Every day a direct bus from Oradea at 14.30, takes 7 hours; from Clij Napoca at 7.00 and 15.00, 5 hours; from Satu Mare at 7.00 and 15.30, 3.30 hours; from Targu Mures at 14.00, 5.30 hours.There are frequent... 

 lotharscheer Says:  The train leaving Budapest Keleti Pu at 16.40 is probably the most convenient, only 1 change of trains (Couchette until Beclean pe Somes), and the realy nice part from Beclean pe Somes to Sighetu Marmatiei in the daytime, total time 18 hours, waiting time in Beclean pe Somes... 

 Jetgirly Says:  It's easy to get to Sighet. I happened to arrive by bus from Viseu de Sus (buses stop right on Piata Libertatii), but it was my departing train ride that was particularly memorable. A morning train ride through Maramures is, in my opinion, an experience that every traveler... 

 lotharscheer Says:  Sãpânta has a amazing strange "Merry Cemetery" a Museum of Ioan Stan Patras who made all These wooden crosses and the the tallest wooden church in Romania.There is a bus from Sighet (i cold not find it), or much easier hitchhike! there is a informal shared taxi system, wait...