Merry Cemetery of Săpânța

E579967

The Merry Cemetery of Săpânța is a famous Romanian graveyard renowned for its brightly colored wooden crosses and humorous, poetic epitaphs that celebrate the lives of the deceased.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Merry Cemetery of Săpânța canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cemetery
tourist attraction
affiliation Romanian Orthodox Church NERFINISHED
country Romania
creator Stan Ioan Pătraș NERFINISHED
designStyle folk art
naive art
hasApproximateNumberOfGraves several hundred
hasColor blue
green
red
yellow
hasCustom celebratory view of death
emphasis on the life of the deceased
first-person epitaphs
use of humor in epitaphs
hasLanguage Romanian
hasNotableFeature blue background color on crosses
brightly colored wooden crosses
depictions of the deceased’s life
humorous epitaphs
naive-style paintings
poetic epitaphs
satirical inscriptions
wooden grave markers
hasSignificance example of a non-somber approach to death
icon of Maramureș region
symbol of Romanian folk culture
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
heritageDesignation Romanian cultural heritage site
inception 1930s
locatedIn Săpânța NERFINISHED
locatedInAdministrativeEntity Maramureș County NERFINISHED
locatedInRegion Maramureș NERFINISHED
historical region of Maramureș
northern Romania NERFINISHED
locatedNear border with Ukraine
nearbyPlace Săpânța Monastery NERFINISHED
notableFor combining burial site with folk humor
unique epitaph style in Europe
religion Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy
subjectOf documentaries
photographic exhibitions
travel guides
touristType cultural tourism
thanatourism

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maramureș region knownFor Merry Cemetery of Săpânța