The northern Romanian county of Maramures is a magical region of beech covered hills, timeless villages and peerless wooden churches. Best of all though is the wonderfully named Merry Cemetery in Sapanta, where you can admire a riot of beautifully carved and exuberantly coloured wooden grave markers, many of which depict the lives and loves of the deceased, often in rib-tickling fashion – such as the one of a stern-looking mother with an accompanying final message to her son, proclaiming ‘Griga, may you pardoned be, even though you did stab me’...
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