# Tourist attractions in Maramureș County [Romania](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/attractions) › [Maramureș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/region/maramures) Maramureș County takes in the Maramureș country, with the valleys of the Iza, the Mara and the Vișeu, and, beyond the Gutâi, the Chioar and Lăpuș countries towards Baia Mare. The Rodna Mountains, with Pietrosul, reach the greatest height in the Eastern Carpathians, while the Maramureș Mountains, on the border, remain little walked. Baia Mare, the county seat, is an old mining town with a restored historic centre; Sighetu Marmației, Borșa, Vișeu de Sus and Târgu Lăpuș are the other towns. Anyone looking for places to visit in Maramureș County comes for wooden churches, villages and mountains. The wooden churches listed by UNESCO, from [Bârsana](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-barsana), [Desești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-desesti) and Budești to [Rogoz](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-rogoz), in Lăpuș, can be seen on a two-day circuit. The [Merry Cemetery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cimitirul-vesel) in Săpânța and the Memorial in Sighet are an hour's drive to the north. Towards Borșa, the [Horses' Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-cailor) is reached by chairlift and then on foot, while on the road from Baia Mare the Gutâi Pass and Lake Mogoșa make fitting stops. At Ocna Șugatag, the salt lakes draw the locals in summer. ## Tourist attractions 15 attractions - [Merry Cemetery](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cimitirul-vesel) — Monuments and historic sites · Săpânța, MM · 10 lei · ½ – 1 hours · Top 20 The cemetery in Săpânța with over 800 oak crosses painted blue, showing naive scenes from the lives of those buried there and witty epitaphs in verse; begun in 1935 by the craftsman Stan Ioan Pătraș. - [Sighet Memorial](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/memorialul-sighet) — Museums and memorial houses · Sighetu Marmației, MM · 25 lei · 2 – 2½ hours · Top 100 The former Sighet prison, where the political elite of interwar Romania died, turned by Ana Blandiana and Romulus Rusan into the first museum of communism in Eastern Europe; over 50 cells made into exhibition rooms. - [Cailor Waterfall](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/cascada-cailor) — Waterfalls · Borșa, MM · Free · 2 – 2½ hours · Top 100 A roughly 90 m waterfall that drops in several tiers down a limestone wall in the Rodna Mountains, above the resort of Borșa; reached by chairlift and a short forest walk. - [Prislop Pass](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pasul-prislop) — Scenic roads · Maramureș County · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100 The highest pass in the Eastern Carpathians: the DN18 climbs from Borșa to 1,416 m between the Rodna and Maramureș Mountains and drops down the Golden Bistrița valley to Cârlibaba, from Maramureș into Bukovina. - [Gutâi Pass](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/pasul-gutai) — Scenic roads · Maramureș County · Free · 1 – 1½ hours The pass where the DN18 climbs in hairpins from Baia Sprie to 987 m between the Igniș and Gutâi Mountains, then drops towards Mara and the Maramureș Land, an hour from Baia Mare. - [Bârsana Wooden Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-barsana) — Monasteries and churches · Bârsana, MM · 30 min · UNESCO World Heritage Bârsana's old wooden church, dating from 1711, stands on Jbâr Hill in an orchard full of crosses; inside is Toader Hodor's Baroque painting of 1806. A UNESCO site. - [Budești Josani Wooden Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-budesti-josani) — Monasteries and churches · Budești, MM · UNESCO World Heritage The 1643 Church of Saint Nicholas in the Cosău Valley, with a slender tower framed by four small turrets, paintings by Alexandru Ponehalschi and the chain mail attributed to the outlaw Pintea the Brave. A UNESCO site. - [Desești Wooden Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-desesti) — Monasteries and churches · Desești, MM · UNESCO World Heritage A wooden church from 1770 dedicated to Saint Paraskeva, painted in 1780 by Radu Munteanu with a crowded Last Judgement; one of the eight Maramureș churches on the UNESCO World Heritage List. - [Ieud Hill Wooden Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-ieud-deal) — Monasteries and churches · Ieud, MM · UNESCO World Heritage The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin on Ieud's rocky hillside, built in 1611–1621, painted inside by Alexandru Ponehalschi and the place where the Ieud Codex was found. A UNESCO site. - [Lake Mogoșa](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-mogosa) — Lakes · Baia Sprie, MM · Free · 1 – 1½ hours A 4-hectare reservoir at 731 m in the forests of the Gutâi Mountains above the town of Baia Sprie, with a lakeside path, terrace, beach and kayaks for hire in summer, 18 km from Baia Mare. - [Ocna Șugatag](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/ocna-sugatag) — Resorts and thermal baths · Ocna Șugatag, MM · Free · 2½ – 3 hours A spa resort in Maramureș with salt lakes that formed on the surface above old salt mines, including Lake Gavril, 30 m deep; salt-water bathing happens in the pools of the local complexes. - [Rogoz Wooden Church](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-rogoz) — Monasteries and churches · Rogoz, MM · UNESCO World Heritage The Church of the Holy Archangels in Rogoz, built in 1663 and part of the Maramureș UNESCO site, has an asymmetric roof over the 'table of the ancestors', horse-head eaves brackets and paintings from 1785. - [Wooden Church of Plopiș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-plopis) — Monasteries and churches · Plopiș, MM · Free · UNESCO World Heritage An oak church built by the village's 49 families at the end of the 18th century, with a slender tower of almost 47 m and a trefoil vault unique among wooden churches, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. - [Wooden Church of Poienile Izei](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-poienile-izei) — Monasteries and churches · Poienile Izei, MM · UNESCO World Heritage An early 17th-century wooden church in the village cemetery, with the best-known depiction of Hell in Maramureș: devils, torments and village sins, painted in 1793–1794. - [Wooden Church of Șurdești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/biserica-de-lemn-surdesti) — Monasteries and churches · Șurdești, MM · UNESCO World Heritage The oak-built Greek Catholic church of Șurdești village, with a 54-metre tower and a total height of 72 metres, one of the tallest old timber buildings in Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage monument. ## Localities - [Baia Sprie](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/city/baia-sprie) - [Borșa](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/city/borsa) - [Budești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/locality/budesti) - [Bârsana](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/locality/barsana) - [Desești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/locality/desesti) - [Ieud](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/locality/ieud) - [Ocna Șugatag](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/locality/ocna-sugatag) - [Plopiș](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/locality/plopis) - [Poienile Izei](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/locality/poienile-izei) - [Rogoz](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/locality/rogoz) - [Sighetu Marmației](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/city/sighetu-marmatiei) - [Săpânța](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/locality/sapanta) - [Șurdești](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/locality/surdesti) --- Full page: https://peplaiuri.ro/en/county/maramures Other languages: Română: https://peplaiuri.ro/judet/maramures.md · Deutsch: https://peplaiuri.ro/de/kreis/maramures.md · Italiano: https://peplaiuri.ro/it/distretto/maramures.md Source: Pe Plaiuri (https://peplaiuri.ro/en) — Guide to tourist attractions in Romania