The hunt is an activity that the inhabitants have been practising for ages and it's very unlikely to find someone who wouldn't be a master in it. In each family a hunter and a woodsman can be found and every village has its own head-hunter, an institution among the communities of Maramures . In Maramures every man is a carpenter too, who works with so much fantasy that the houses are real art masterpieces. Fences are made out of crossed reeds and willows. Flowers are the leading decoration patterns for fences, doors and gutters.
Houses are a sort of ethnographic museums.
The doors of the houses, made of carved oak, are real works of folk craftsmanship. It is a porch whose columns have been carved and decorated. As well as carpenters, the people of the villages are also a bit architects and excellent craftsmen, to the point that nails are never used and everything is built as a perfect joint. Customs and traditions of Maramures Maramures is only a small corner of Romania, nonetheless it is considered to be the cradle of Romanian culture and civilisation. Nowhere, like in this district, customs and uses have kept unchanged through the centuries.