More visitors tour Romania's largest open-air museum

More than 7,600 Sibiu City people and tourists visited this Easter the Dumbrava Sibiului Museum, Romania's largest open-air museum, with many of them having attended the Resurrection church service there, according to the museum's spokesman Cosmin Calinescu.

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'More than 6,000 visitors attended this year's Resurrection church service at the Dumbrava Sibiului Open-Air Museum, up 1,000 from 2014. The church service was held at the Bezded Church, built entirely of wood, dating from 1759. The believers sang along ?Christ is Risen' and received light at midnight. On Resurrection night, the open-air museum was open and illuminated starting at 23:00hrs; it stayed like this throughout the church service,' says Calinescu.

On the second Easter day, 1,610 more visitors walked the alleys of the museum, the only local museum open to the public on Easter.

Increasingly more foreign tourists, particularly Asians, visit Sibiu City on Easter.

'Nearly 30 per cent of the visitors are foreign tourists. A majority of them come from Nordic countries, Germany and the US, but there is also a rising trend in the number of Asian visitors, particularly from Japan and Thailand,' Calinescu told AGERPRES on Tuesday.

With a lake and more than 10 km of alleys, the Dumbrava Sibiului Open-Air Museum is considered the largest such museum in Romania. Tourists can tour the place by boat on the lake or by carriage among traditional houses translated there from villages around Romania. AGERPRES