Merry Cemetery
Sapanta, Romania
View of the Merry Cemetery of Sapanta (435 miles northwest of Bucharest) in this July 3, 2004 file picture. Bursting with colour, life and history, hundreds of brilliantly decorated wooden crosses have marked the graves of villagers since an imaginative local wood carver started this unique tradition in the 1930s. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel
Merry Cemetery of Sapanta (435 miles northwest of Bucharest).
 - July 3, 2004,  REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel


A tourist reads the epitaph writen on a painted cross in the Merry Cemetery of Sapanta (700km northwest of Bucharest) in this July 3, 2004 file picture. Bursting with colour, life and history, hundreds of brilliantly decorated wooden crosses have marked the graves of villagers since an imaginative local wood carver started this unique tradition in the 1930s. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel/FEATURE/ROMANIA-CEMETERY
 - July 3, 2004,  REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel

An image is seen painted on the cross of a grave of a beheaded man in the Merry Cemetery of Sapanta, northwest of Bucharest, in this July 3, 2004 file picture. Bursting with colour, life and history, hundreds of brilliantly decorated wooden crosses have marked the graves of villagers since an imaginative local wood carver started this unique tradition in the 1930s. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel/FEATURE/ROMANIA-CEMETERY
A grave of a beheaded man in the Merry Cemetery.
- July 3, 2004,  REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel
Tourists take a group picture around a painted cross in the Merry Cemetery of Sapanta (700km northwest of Bucharest) in this July 3, 2004 file picture. Bursting with colour, life and history, hundreds of brilliantly decorated wooden crosses have marked the graves of villagers since an imaginative local wood carver started this unique tradition in the 1930s. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel/FEATURE/ROMANIA-CEMETERY
- July 3, 2004,  REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel
 

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