Săpânţa, Romania
Merry Cemetery
The Merry Cemetery is a cemetery in the village of Săpânța, Maramureș County, Romania. It is famous for its brightly coloured tombstones with naïve paintings describing, in an original and poetic manner, and often with humour, the people who are buried there in addition to scenes from their lives. The Merry Cemetery became an open-air museum and a national tourist attraction.
- City
- Săpânţa
- Country
- Romania
- Category
- Historic
- Suggested visit
- About 90 minutes
Background: Wikipedia