Historic Centre of Sighetu Marmației

Sighetu Marmației lies in the north of Maramureș County, on the Tisa, on the border with Ukraine. Under Austrian and Austro-Hungarian rule the town was the seat of Maramureș county. The historic centre, a class A historic monument (LMI code MM-II-a-A-04666), covers the area of 22 Decembrie, Bogdan Vodă, Dragoș Vodă, Libertății, Avram Iancu, Vasile Alecsandri, Mihai Eminescu and Mihaly Ioan de Apșa streets, with buildings from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. The Piața Libertății urban ensemble (LMI code MM-II-a-A-20246) comprises the buildings at numbers 1-36, dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They include the former hotel and restaurant at no. 1, now the seat of the Maramureș Museum and a cinema, the former Coroana hotel at no. 8, the Brenner House (1832), the Buzath pharmacy (1875), the headquarters of the Association for the Culture of the Romanian People of Maramureș with its teacher training school (1873-1875), and the former Piarist monastery (1730-1806) with the church of St Charles Borromeo. In the surrounding streets are the Reformed church, dated to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and the former prefecture of Maramureș county (1692), both on Strada Mihaly Ioan de Apșa; the Ukrainian church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (1791-1807) and the House with Caryatids (1890) on Strada Bogdan Vodă; the Old Courthouse (1893-1895), now the town hall and law court; the church of the Dormition (1892) on Strada Dragoș Vodă; and the Palace of Culture (1913) on Strada Iuliu Maniu, built on the initiative of the Association for the Culture of the Romanian People of Maramureș and now used as a cultural centre and municipal library. The Mihaly de Apșa House (1880), at no. 17 on the street of the same name, is a memorial house of the Maramureș Museum. Also in the centre are the Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance, in the former prison of 1897 at Strada Corneliu Coposu 4, where about 200 political prisoners were held between 1950 and 1955, the Vizhnitzer Kloiz synagogue (1902) at Strada Basarabiei 10, and the Elie Wiesel Memorial House at Strada Tudor Vladimirescu 1.