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Merry Cemetery - Definition and Overview |
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The Merry Cemetery (Romanian: Cimitirul Vesel) is a cemetery in the village of Săpânţa, Maramureş county, Romania that is famous for its colourful tombstones with the naive painting that represent scenes from the life of the burried persons and even poetry in which the are described those persons.
The unusual feature of this cemetery is that it grows apart from most of the European cultures, that consider death something solemn. Sometimes this is put in connection with the Dacian culture, whose philosophy was based on the immortality of the soul and the belief that somebody's death was a joyful moment, as that person was getting to a better life.
The cemetery has its origin in some crosses sculpted by Ioan Patraş. In 1935, Patraş sculpted the first epitaph and since the 1960s, the whole cemetery was populated with over 800 such crosses, sculpted from oak wood, and it became an open-air museum and an touristic attraction.
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Example Usage of Cemetery |
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valerien: visiting my uncle at the Cemetery. this visit is long overdue. |
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Namaste206: He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the Cemetery. (via @pRiNcE_JD) |
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BatVader: RT @MarineCorpsNews: About 6,000 volunteers helped lay more than 16,000 wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery to honor American troops ... |
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