The Merry Cemetery - Cimitirul Vesel, Săpânţa


Is a cemetery famous for its colourful tombstones with naive paintings describing, in an original and poetic manner, the persons that are buried there, as well as scenes from their lives. The cemetery's origins are linked with the name Stan Ioan Pătraş, a local artist who sculpted the first tombstone crosses. In 1935, Pătraş carved the first epitaph and, as of 1960s, more than 800 oak wood crosses appeared.   

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