Sighetu Marmației

Romania

Sighetu Marmatiei (also spelled Sighet), with its 41,000 inhabitants, is the main town of the Maramureş region (northern Transylvania, Romania). Inhabited since the Stone Age, the settlement was first mentioned in 1334, and as town, in 1352. Today, Sighet is the gateway of Maramures, and one of its most important tourist attractions.

Maramures Village Museum

  • Maramureș Village Museum. An open air museum, with over 30 wooden houses dated to 17-19th centuries and a 16th-century wooden church
  • The Elie Wiesel House.
  • Maramureș Museum. Rich displays of 15th-19th century icons, carpets, furniture and other ethnographic stuff
  • The Archaeological, History and Natural Sciences Museum (the former Piarist Monastery, built in 1730).
  • The Reformed Church. The oldest building which survived-dated in 14th century, mixture of Gothic and New Gothic styles).
  • The Roman-Catholic Church "Saint Carol Boromeu" (built between 1730-1806, Baroque style, sun clock above the entrance, an Armenian altar, paintings and statues).
  • The Ukraininian Orthodox Church "Elevation of the Holy Cross" (built between 1791-1807, many saints relics).
  • The Sephardic Synagogue (built in 1900-1904, Mauric-Renascentist style).
  • The Jewish Cemetery and the Soap Monument (3.000 graves, like those of the founders of Hasidic movement - Teitelbaum dynasty. The Soap Monument contains two boxes filled with soap made by Jews gassed at Auschwitz death camp).
  • Paupers' Cemetery. About 50 former Romanian dignitaries, ministers, bishops, academicians, journalists, who were killed in Sighet jail during 1950s are buried in anonymous graves.
  • The Steam engine (built in 1943, model Henschel&Sohn).
  • The Livestock Market (very colourful, takes place every first Monday of each month).
  • The Central Market (daily, where the merchants sell vegetables, fruits, dairy produces, handcrafts).
  • The Cultural Palace (built in 1912-1913, looking like a medieval castle, Eccletic-Romantic style).

The Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance. The former prison of the Maramureș County, built in 1897, today a museum of European significance, under the aegis of the Council of Europe.

Maramureș Village Museum. An open air museum, with over 30 wooden houses dated to 17-19th centuries and a 16th-century wooden church

The Elie Wiesel House.

Maramureș Museum. Rich displays of 15th-19th century icons, carpets, furniture and other ethnographic stuff

The Archaeological, History and Natural Sciences Museum (the former Piarist Monastery, built in 1730).

The Reformed Church. The oldest building which survived-dated in 14th century, mixture of Gothic and New Gothic styles).

The Roman-Catholic Church "Saint Carol Boromeu" (built between 1730-1806, Baroque style, sun clock above the entrance, an Armenian altar, paintings and statues).

The Ukraininian Orthodox Church "Elevation of the Holy Cross" (built between 1791-1807, many saints relics).

The Sephardic Synagogue (built in 1900-1904, Mauric-Renascentist style).

The Jewish Cemetery and the Soap Monument (3.000 graves, like those of the founders of Hasidic movement - Teitelbaum dynasty. The Soap Monument contains two boxes filled with soap made by Jews gassed at Auschwitz death camp).

Paupers' Cemetery. About 50 former Romanian dignitaries, ministers, bishops, academicians, journalists, who were killed in Sighet jail during 1950s are buried in anonymous graves.

The Steam engine (built in 1943, model Henschel&Sohn).

The Livestock Market (very colourful, takes place every first Monday of each month).

The Central Market (daily, where the merchants sell vegetables, fruits, dairy produces, handcrafts).

The Cultural Palace (built in 1912-1913, looking like a medieval castle, Eccletic-Romantic style).

If you walk east along the main street, you'll come to three supermarkets: Carrefour, Lidl and another one. Further out of town is a hyper-markets -- Kaufland.

There aren't many restaurants in the town - mostly cafes, bars, and fast food places along the main street selling pizza and shwarsas.