Romania's unusual attraction: A cemetery of wooden markers

By Tatyana Leonov
May 28 2016 - 12:15am
A cemetery visitor.
A cemetery visitor.
A lighter side to life and death is celebrated in Romania's Merry Cemetery.
A lighter side to life and death is celebrated in Romania's Merry Cemetery.

"Tuica is pure venom. She brings tears and torment. And tuica brought this to me too. Death put me under her foot," Rada Pavel, my guide, looks up to make sure I'm listening and grasping the gist of the translation before continuing. "He who likes tuica a lot. Will have at the end my lot. As I have loved tuica a lot. And with it in hand I died. Here rests Dumitru Holdis. Lived 45 years. Sudden death in 1958."

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