You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Our drive from Baia Mare (the capital of Maramures County, one of 41 counties in Romania) to ...

VADU IZEI, Romania — Forty miles from the shops selling cellphones and bikinis on Bucharesti Street in the mining town of Baia Mare, Maria Stan sits in front of her house on a dirt street in the ...

Romania’s Maramures region may be modernising in places but take a walk in the countryside among forests, wooden churches and hay stooks and you’ll feel like you’ve stepped back in time Week 1: ...

Walking along the dirt roads in the village of Breb, in the far north of Romania, past wooden houses with beautifully carved gates, hand-pump wells and yards alive with livestock, it is hard to work ...

Maramures (meaning “Big River,” for the Tisa River which flows through the area) is in northern Transylvania near the Ukraine border. Major cities are Baia Mare, the county seat; Satu Mare and Sighetu ...

If the global village has soured and you seek escape from the latte culture frothing around you, head for northern Romania and the undisturbed hills of Maramures. My work with women's contraception ...

Maramures represents a solid bridge between Romania and Ukraine, and the villages and communes in the county are home to over 30,000 ethnic Ukrainians, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan ...

On Eva’s next stop on her Balkans roadtrip she meets Toader Barsan, one of the last traditional carpenters in Romania. Welcome to our latest video series, Rerouted: The Balkans, which sees social ...