Sapanta village is located on the right bank of the Tisza River in the valley of the terrace, near the confluence Sapanta and Tisza, in the extreme north of Romania, Maramures Country. The village is situated about 18 km from Sighet Marmatiei.
2. Sapanta village is
located on the right bank
of the Tisza River in the
valley of the terrace, near
the confluence Sapanta
and Tisza, in the extreme
north of Romania,
Maramures Country. The
village is situated about
18 km from Sighet
Marmatiei.
3. Village area is approximately 150 square kilometers and includes meadows, terraced hills
and mountains. The settlement is dominated by Sapanta Stone, an impressive volcanic
formation.
Attested in the 1300s, known in 1373 under the name "Zapancha" Sapanta city, part of the
historical Maramures, his name may be derived after the statement poet John Alexander,
from the Latin Sapientia (wisdom).
4. With a homogeneous population, the Romanian town was at the end of the fourteenth
century, owned by Stan, Peter, Toader, Dan Tivadar, property received from the Romanian
Moldavian princes as a right ought to be.
On its territory there are mineral springs bicarbonate, sodium, calcium, chloride with a high
concentration of bicarbonate ions. Residents use the water in treating gastritis, peptic
disease and cholecystitis (for this carbon dioxide is removed by shaking).
5. Residents of the area are known
Sapanta handicrafts that are produced
here, and costumes made RUGS. But
really Sapanta became known in
Romania and abroad due to the Merry
Cemetery in the village.
Currently, Sapanta is one of the great
and beautiful rural community in
Maramures, which draws in all seasons
but especially in summer, an increased
number of visitors in the country, in
Europe but also from distant Japan,
Sapanta name became a landmark in a
tourism geography worldwide.