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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

I wake to the sound of crowing, clanking and lowing. As chickens peck in the dust just beneath my window, a dozen cows are shuffling through the village, their bells a discordant jangle. At each house ...