The Merry Cemetery – Săpânța – Maramureș County
The Merry Cemetery is a cemetery in the village of Săpânța, Maramureș County, Romania, that is famous for its beautiful carved wooden crosses, painted in the radiant blue of heaven and decorated witrh a painting and an original poem that disclose a little something about the life and character of the plot’s eternal inhabitant.
Dumitru Pop Tincu is the artists who creates each of these little masterpieces, carrying on a tradition begun in the 1930’s by his mentor Ion Stan Patras, who carved the crosses until his death in 1977.
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