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The Merry Cemetery

The Merry Cemetery.

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The Merry Cemetery

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  1. The Merry Cemetery

  2. The Merry Cemetery is a cemetery in the villageof Săpânța,Maramureş county,Romania. It is famous for its colourful tombstones with naïve paintings describing, in an original and poetic manner, the persons that are buried there as well as scenes from their lives. The Merry Cemetery became an open-air museum and a national tourist attraction.

  3. 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. Connections with the local Dacian culture have been made, a culture whose philosophical tenets presumably vouched for the immortality of the soul and the belief that death was a moment filled with joy and anticipation for a better life (see also Zalmoxianism).

  4. Romanian De cu tînăr copilașIo am fost Stan Ion PătrașSă mă ascultaț oameni buniCe voi spune nu-s minciuniCîte zile am trăitRău la nime n-am doritDar bine cît-am pututOrișicine mia cerutVai săraca lumea meaCă greu am trăit în ea English Since I was a little boyI was known as Stan Ion PătraşListen to me, fellowsThere are no lies in what I am going to sayAll along my lifeI meant no harm to anyoneTo anyone who askedOh, my poor WorldBecause It was hard living in it The founder 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 1960s, more than 800 of such oak wood crosses came into sight. The inscription on his tombstone cross says:

  5. Romanian Sub aceasta cruce greaZace biata soacra-meaTrei zile de mai traiaZaceam eu si cetea ea.Voi care treceti pa aiciIncercati sa n-o trezitiCa acasa daca vineIarai cu gura pa mineDa asa eu m-oi purtaCa-napoi n-a inturnaStai aicea draga soacra-mea English Under this heavy crossLies my poor mother in-lawThree more days she would have livedI would lie, and she would read (this cross).You, who here are passing byNot to wake her up please tryCause' if she comes back homeShe'll criticise me more.But I will surely behaveSo she'll not return from grave.Stay here, my dear mother in-law! Funny epitaphs

  6. The Merry Cemeterycrosses in pale blue color . The tombstone of Stan Ioan Pătraş(1908 - 1977),the Merry Cemeterycreator .

  7. The church behind theMerry Cemetery . The gate decorated according to the ritual ofMaramureş .

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