Romania-Sapanta
The Merry Cemetery (Cimitirul Vesel in Romanian) of S?pân?a, Maramure? county, the village's orthodox prest. The cemetery is famous for its colourful tombstones with naïve paintings describing in an original and poetic manner, the life of the local people buried there with scenes from their lives and work. The Merry Cemetery, now an open-air museum, is linked to the name of the local artist Stan Ioan P?tra? who in 1935 sculpted the first tombstone cross. In 1960s, more than 800 of such oak wood crosses came into this unusual cemetery.
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- Romania-Maramures, Sapanta, the "Merry Cemetery"

