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Cimitirul Vesel din Săpânța

Merry Cemetery of Sapanta / Cimetière joyeux de Sapanta:

The Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa is a cemetery of the Maramures region of Romania, with the particularity of having its tombs decorated with wooden funerary steles, painted in bright colors, with a naive type engraving representing a scene of life, a activity or causes of death of the person buried, accompanied by a poem, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes humorous, dedicated to the memory of the dead.

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Uploaded on October 6, 2018
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