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Folk Culture
Folk traditions are alive and kicking, especially in Romania's rural areas. There's tremend-
ous variety across regions. The open-air museums are a treat, and every town or city has
some type of ethnographic exhibition.
Maramureş
Large parts of this remote rural area to the north of Transylvania still feel un-
touched by modern life (
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Ethnographic Museum
An overlooked gem in Craiova, showing off regional bread mak-
ing, pottery, painting and weaving skills (
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National Village Museum
Romania's humbler origins are on display at the this well-done
skansen
(open-air museum), situated incongruously in the middle of Bucharest (
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ASTRA Museum of Traditional Folk Civilisation
This museum in Sibiu holds some 300
reconstructed peasant huts and farmhouses in a lovely park setting (
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Ethnographic Museum
Iaşi's most interesting museum resurrects rural life in 16 rooms
that display everything from fishing and hunting to festive masks and woodworking (
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Castles & Fortresses
While the 'real Dracula's castle' may only have been a figment of Bram Stoker's imagina-
tion, there are dozens of worthy, even worthier, replacements. You'll find ruins on rocks as
well as opulent restored residences of old royals.
Viscri
The fortified church in this signature Saxon village dates from around 1100 (
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