In the world’s most cheerful cemetery, the tombstones are brightly painted and jokes are written on the graves
In the small village of Săpânţa in Maramureş County, Romania, sits Cimitirul Vesel, the “Merry Cemetery.” Unlike cemeteries in other parts of Romania, the Merry Cemetery is filled with wooden headstones, each one carved, brightly colored, and inscribed with a sometimes irreverent poem. It’s a place that looks on the lighter side of death. Death…
