In 1935, a local popular artist has started to carve and paint in vivid colors the wooden crosses of his defunct neighbors from Sapânta. Then, the artist added an ironic epitaph resuming the life of the deceased or the conditions of his death.

It has resulted in a joyful collection of naive drawings and funny, short stories – the Merry Cemetery of Sapânta.

Nowadays, the local artist, Stan Ioan Patras, has his own painting and epitaph carved on his cross.