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· Maramureș
· 267 m
The Cemetery is famous for its colourful tombstones with naïve paintings describing, in an original and poetic manner, the people who are buried there as well as scenes from their lives.
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.
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 the 1960s, more than 800 of such oak wood crosses came into sight.
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recommend to visit the cemetery with a car.The cemetery is in a village next to Sighet, the capital of the Maramures region on the Northern border next to Ukraine. The region is renowned as a beautiful area in Romania, well-known for its wooden churches and traditions preservations.
If you do not have a car, you definitely need to go to Baia Mare by train or bus, take a bus to Sighet and further to Sapanta.
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