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Cimitirul Vesel este localizat în județul Maramureș din România, în micul sat Săpânța, în spatele Bisericii „Nașterea Maicii Domnului”.

Este ieșit din comun prin crucile policrome, ce poartă desene naive, voioase și poezii hazlii, ce ilustrează poetic scene din viețile oamenilor îngropați acolo.

Cimitirul reprezintă un puternic dezacord cu larg-răspândita convingere că moartea este un moment solemn.

Cimitirul Vesel își are rădăcinile în cultura dacilor, ce adoptă ideea că sufletele sunt nemuritoare și, ca atare, moartea este un moment de bucurie și speranță, deoarece decedatul se îndreaptă către o viață mai bună.

Artistul Stan Ioan Pătraș a sculptat primele pietre funerare în formă de cruce.

A inscripționat primul epitaf în 1935 și, de-a lungul a treizeci de ani, au fost ridicate peste 800 de cruci de lemn sculptate, pictate în culori vii.

Poeziile care sunt sculptate pe cruci sunt mai ales voioase și jucăușe în natura lor, deși există și unele care vorbesc despre tragedii, despre vieți scurtate de o boală gravă sau de un accident.

Deși poeziile nu sunt batjocoritoare sau ireverențioase, unele dintre ele spun povești destul de îndoielnice despre alcoolism sau infidelitate.

Multe dintre poezii sunt scrise la persoana întâi.

În ziua de astăzi, crucile sunt executate de Dumitru Pop, un ucenic al lui Pătraș.

Atunci când cineva din sat moare, membrii familiei merg la Pop și îi cer să îi facă crucea.

Fiecare dintre cruci este sculptată în stejar solid, iar Pop decide ce trebuie să spună ele și ce imagine ar trebui să prezinte.

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The Merry Cemetery is located in Romania's Maramures County in the small village of Sapanta in the rear of the Church of the Assumption.

It's prominent for its polychromatic grave markers which bear lighthearted, naïve paintings and droll poems that poetically illustrate scenes from the lives of the people who are buried there.

The cemetery represents a strong divergence from the widely held belief that death is a solemn time.

The Merry Cemetery has its roots in the Dacian culture, which espouses that souls are immortal and as such, death is a time of joyful expectancy as the deceased looks forward to a better life.

Artist Stan Ioan Patras sculpted the first tombstones in the shape of crosses.

He inscribed the initial epitaph in 1935, and within three decades, more than 800 vibrant, carved wooden crosses had been erected there.

The poems that are carved into the grave markers are mostly light hearted and jocular in nature, although there are some that tell stories of tragedy about a life cut short by serious illness or an accident.

While the poems are not mocking or irreverent, some tell rather questionable stories like about alcoholism or infidelities.

Most of the poems are written in the first person.

Today the grave markers are made by Dumitru Pop, a protégé of Patras.

When someone in the village passes away, their family members go to Pop and ask him to make the grave marker.

Each is carved in solid oak, and Pop decides what they should say and what the picture should depict.

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Unde găsesc (blank)?

Unde găsesc bilete de autobuz?

Unde găsesc apa?

Unde este (blank)?

Unde este staţia de metrou?

Unde este cinematograful?

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Where do I find (blank) ?

Where do I find bus tickets?

Where do I find water?

Where is (blank)?

Where is the subway station?

Where is the movie theater?

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