Traditions – Pictures

An isolated farmhouse in the countryside.

Most farmhouses are found in villages.

A girl in traditional clothes.

The main room of a farmhouse.

A young girl dressed for Sunday.

Also boys dress in their best for special occasions.

Beekeeping.

A couple on their way to make hay.

Shepherds making cheese.

Woodcutters at work.

A shepherd feeding his dogs with milk.

An ox-drawn cart to carry produce to the market.

A woman weaving on a loom.

Carpets drying by a river.

Celebrating Easter with banners and flags.

Women sitting outside a church on Easter Sunday.

Two girls on their way to church in Breb.

A dancing couple at the Vadu Izei wedding festival.

Many houses are still built all of wood following the old ways.

A small grain mill is powered by a fast-running river.

A brandy still.

A potter polishes with a smooth river stone his ware.

An old shepherd making cheese.

Milking sheep at a mountain sheepfold.

Separating cream from milk.

Churning butter.

A beekeeper cleaning the frames of a beehive.

Children dressed in traditional clothes in a typical Maramures landscape.

The painted grave markers of the Sapanta Merry Cemetery.

A group of Hungarians at the Vadu Izei wedding festival.

Young men in a wedding procession.

Young men going to a wedding.