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TRADITIONS
IN ROMANIA
Art, architecture and Romanian folk traditions are distinguished in Europe by their originality and their longevity through centuries. The diversity of the traditions and habits put emphasize on the regional specificity of the ethnography: games with masks in
Moldova, crafts and folk dances in Oltenia, traditional costumes in
Transylvania, wood art in Maramures, pastoral civilization in
Apuseni.
Merry Cemetery in Sapanta - Maramures
Sapanta is a typical village in Maramures in which
can be seen a cemetery totally unique, by a great originality. It is called
the merry cemetery because the crosses are decorated with sculptures and drawings, in vivid colors, describing negative habits (mostly) or positive of those who passed away and sleep here forever.
These are the work of a skilled Craftsmen - Stan Ion Patras - who improvises original lyrics for his funerary monuments. At 12 miles from the village is a
mineral water spring and a waterfall formed by it.
Traditional costumes and wooden churches
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