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1. SĂPÂNȚA
The Merry Cemetery (Romanian: Cimitirul Vesel
pronounced is a cemetery in the village of Săpânța,
Maramureş country, Romania. It is famous for its
colourful tombstones with naïve paintings
describing, in an original and poetic manner, the
persons who are buried there as well as scenes from
their lives. The Merry Cemetery became an open-air
museum and a national tourist attraction.
The unusual feature of this cemetery is that it
diverges from the prevalent belief, culturally shared
within European societies – a belief that views death
as something indelibly solemn.
The cemetery's origins are linked with the name of
Stan Ioan Pătraş, a local artist who sculpted the first
tombstone crosses. In 1935, Pătraș carved the first
epitaph and, as of the 1960s, more than 800 of such
oak wood crosses came into sight
UNIVERSITY OF AGRONOMIC SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE
VOICU ELENA, group 8111
Keywords: Maramureș, Săpânța, Merry Cemetery, Traditions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Cemetery
http://romaniatourism.com/traditional-villages.html