Camping Noroc

Within the village of Săcălășeni are a pretty and traditional church, as well as a sprawling swimming complex with pools and slides. Slightly further afield (about five kilometres from the site) is a fishing lake that should be a must for anyone angling for a few hours with rod and reel.

Broaden areas of activity then to include the city of Baia Mare (15 minutes’ drive), where guests at the site can wander about a host of museums – including those dedicated to ethnography and mineralogy – visit the planetarium, stroll through the Old Town and clamber up Stefan’s Tower.

Unsure of whether to stick with all things historical or switch to days in nature? Why not both? Lacul Albastru, a stunning lake with bright blue waters, and the traditional wooden Church of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, with its impressive spire, are both about half an hour away.

For farther-flung adventures, visits to Rohia and Rohița monasteries and to the Budești Josani church can be had within an hour, and a trip to the city of Sighetu Marmației on the Ukrainian border comes highly recommended for its ethnographic museum, Maramureș Village Museum and memorial to the victims of communism. Also worth a visit in Sighetu is the Elie Wiesel Memorial House, where the Holocaust survivor and author was born and raised prior to his ghettoisation and subsequent deportation to Auschwitz.