Merry Cemetery, Cemetery and tourist attraction in Săpânța, Romania.

The Merry Cemetery in Săpânța holds more than 800 oak crosses, each topped with a triangular roof and painted blue, with white lettering and small naive pictures of the deceased's trade or death. Some crosses carry painted verses on both sides: one describes the person's life, the other the cause of death. A blue cross with a painted angel stands beside the main markers.

In 1935 the Greek-Catholic priest Grigore Rițiu suggested widening the vertical part of the crosses to make room for an epitaph, and the craftsman Stan Ioan Pătraș carved the first one that year. From the 1960s about 800 oak crosses filled the cemetery. Pătraș's apprentice Dumitru Pop-Tincu took over the practice in 1977.

Each oak cross carries a short epitaph in verse, often joking about the deceased or about family relations, such as a man's epitaph for his mother-in-law. Many crosses are painted on both sides: one describes the person's life, the other the cause of death. Most inscriptions keep the spelling mistakes and archaic forms of the village. The cemetery has been the focus of the annual festival "The Long Road to the Merry Cemetery" since 2009.

The cemetery lies in Săpânța village, Maramureș County, and is an open-air museum with about 800 oak crosses set on level ground. Some crosses are painted on both sides: one side describes the person's life, the other the cause of death. Since 2009 it has hosted the annual festival "Drumul Lung spre Cimitirul Vesel."

Some crosses are painted on both sides: one side describes the person's life, the other the cause of death. Most inscriptions contain spelling mistakes and archaic spellings, kept as they were painted. The first epitaph dates from 1935.