Maramureș: places, data and stories

The Empty House — 1 in 4 Dwellings Stands Empty

The 2021 Census counts 2.53 million unoccupied dwellings — 25.5% of the housing stock. In Mehedinți 36.3% are empty. County map, breakdown and why the rural empty stock does not solve city rents.

The Merry Cemetery Decoded: What Săpânța's Painted Crosses Say

Read the Romanian inscriptions on nine painted crosses from Săpânța alongside working Chinese and English translations. Each entry separates what the text says from interpretations the sources cannot confirm.

Maramures 2026: Sighet, Sapanta, Viseu, Borsa, Barsana, Baia Mare — fares and access

What to see in Maramures: Sighet Memorial 25 lei, Planetarium 20, Mineralogy 20, Sapanta with no official fare, Mocanita in the dedicated guide. Measured access.

100 places in Romania you won't find anywhere else in the world

An interactive bilingual atlas of 100 singular places, natural anomalies, ice caves, archaic relics, and unique engineering in Romania with map and documented cards.

Romanian villages left without a school, 2013–2026

Of 6,833 villages with a school on the Ministry of Education's 2013–14 list, 1,329 have none in 2025–26. A map of every village over 13 years, and why the official count of rural schools (−76%) does not mean as many schools closed.

How old is your town?

The median age of each of Romania’s 3,181 localities, computed from the registered population by single year of age (INS, POP107D), on a map with every real boundary. Search your locality, see how old it is against the country and the county, its age fingerprint in one hundred squares, its pyramid by sex and its path from 1992 to 2026. In 528 localities there are now more registered people aged 80 or over than children under 10; in 1992 there were 9.