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This is a graveyard where the gravestones are stained, there are funny epitaphs and more.
muyinteresante.com.mx • Located in a small village in Maramures, Romania, just 8 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, the Sapânta cemetery is famous in the world for its unique and colorful tombs, which bring to the center the caricature of the profession of the deceased.
Contrary to what is expected, the tombstones of this shrine express joy: the epitaphs describe in an original way and poetic events about the deceased's life, a humorous episode, a teaching or the history of his death. Blue is the color that predominates in this unique place because of its environment.
Background
The origins of the "cimitirul cesel din Sapânta" (Sapanta cemetery) are related to Stan Ioan Patras, a local artist who began carving tombstones in 1935. In 1960, the entire cemetery was populated about 800 oak pbadages, protected from the elements under a kind of roof, transforming this space into an open-air museum.
Ion Patras had the idea of engraving epitaphs and drawings on the crosses that his neighbors had commissioned him for the funeral of their loved ones, a task that was consecrated for four decades, until his death in 1977. In that year, his successor continued, Pop Dumitru, who lives in his teacher's house and maintains his style. And since there is no better way to recognize the art of the Romanian artist, the founder of this happy colorful cemetery rests in the same cemetery.
The colorful place is one of the most recommended tours in Romania, in an area known for its huge wooden churches and for a cemetery where people laugh for a while.
PHRASE
Under this heavy cross, is my poor stepmother. If I had lived three more days, I would lie and live. You who go here, try not to wake her up, because if she comes home, we will return to old habits. That's why I'm going to behave well, so she will not come back. Stay here, my dear mother-in-law. Epitaph dedicated to a mother-in-law
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