Merry Cemetery is a cemetery in Sapanta, Maramures County, famous for tombs crosses colorful naive paintings representing scenes from the life and occupation of persons buried. In some crosses there are even lines are mentioned, often humorous nuances, such persons.
The novelty of this cemetery is differentiation from most cultures people who consider death as a very solemn event. Sometimes special character of this cemetery was put in touch with culture Dacians, whose philosophy was based on the belief that immortality and death was a cause for celebration, the person bringing in another life better.
Cemetery has its origin in some crosses carved by Stan Ioan Patras. Thus, in 1935, Patras carved the first epitaph and the 1960s onwards, the entire cemetery was populated with about 800 such crosses, carved oak, making it an outdoor museum and a tourist attraction unique nature.
Some crosses are painted on both sides. On one side is placed a description of the buried life, the other a description of why death.
Located at the entrance of the town of Sighet, on the road from Baia Mare, Maramures Village Museum joins in 1981, the Ethnographic Museum of Maramures as an outdoor section.
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