Cultural tourism is rich in what it can offer. There are many libraries, historical and archaeological museums, memorial houses and castles or fortresses that can be visited.

A circuit that offers opportunities to learn about the history of this area is The circuit of medieval and ancient fortresses and castles and includes the following localities: Satu Mare – Carei – Tasnad – Ardud with deviation towards Hodod – Mediesu Aurit – Livada – Turulung – Satu Mare.

An objective of great cultural value is The Open air Museum from Oas Land which is situated in the centre of Negresti Oas town and it is very close to the national road DN 19, Satu Mare – Sighetu Marmatiei. What is very special here is the fact that the masters working at the museum (the miller, the ironsmith, the potter) do not make just simple demonstrations of their skills. This picturesque place with a special hospitality and tradition is a tourist destination with special valence for many tourists.

Another tourist objective belonging to this type of tourism is The Dendrological Park from Carei Town which surrounds the Karolyi Castle. The park has about 110 exotic species, some of them are rarities of dendrological flora from Romania and others representing real records through their dimensions. The castle hosts in its rooms the Town Museum – with archaeological and nature sciences sections.

Within the folkloric variant of the cultural tourism, Satu Mare County can boast with two special cultural events: “The shepherd’s partnership festivity” and “The festival of folklore from Codru Zone”. “The shepherd’s partnership festivity” takes place every year in the month of May in Huta-Certeze locality and it is the greatest event of the inhabitants from Oas Land linked by the traditional work of shepherding, feast that stands for the coming of spring and the drawing out of the ship for grazing. After “measuring the milk” starts the feast with all kind of food specific to this area, “boace” and plum brandy; then the feast is continuing with dances and songs. The dances from this area are animated by the staccato rhythm of “cetera”, by “tipurituri” and by the beat of hands tap.

“The festival of folklore from Codru Zone” takes place every year in the month of August in the beautiful forest near Oteloaia (Commune Homoroade). Here the visitor can be acquainted with the specific ethnographic and folkloric elements, among which the difficult and spectacular dances are highlighted.

Access routes: We depart from Sibiu and travel to Sadu. From the center of the village we go on further up to the valley for approximately 2 km. It is one of the most interesting museums of its kind as it offers us the possibility of visiting an electric power station of 1 MW that has been continuously working since 1896. We can also admire Swedish, Hungarian or Romanian turbines, wonders of technology at their time, measuring equipment and other tools that have been used for years.

The building was in fact a drug store called “La Ursul Negru” and was first mentioned in 1500. Among the 6000 pieces that compose the collection we can see installations that belonged to the alchemists and the pharmacists from the 17-19 th century. Pharmaceutical equipments such as wooden, glass and china pots, technical-medical tools, surgeon's case, microscopes used in the XVII-XIX th century.

Address: No.26, Piata Mica ( Small Square )

 

Hermann Oberth was born on the 25 th of July 1894 and passed away on the 28th of December 1989 in Nurnberg. He put the theoretical bases of the spatial navigation, the rocket with liquid propellant, as a functional model and he founded a school in the air space domain. He also fought for the ideal of conquering the space being the 1 st space pioneer who didn't think only at the scientific matter of the problem, but at its filosofical and economic dimension, at its meaning for the future generation ( a new dimension of the human creation, a real means of defeating the limits imposed by the finite character of the space and of resources. The „Hermann Oberth” Museum was inaugurated on the 25 th of June 1994, at the centenary of Hermann Oberth's birth. The museum is situated in the Municipality of Medias, strada Hermann Oberth, nr. 23, in the house inhabited by the scholar's family between 1924 and 1928. Projections of documentary films related to the history of the space conquest by man are made in the audio-video room.