Cemetery Laughs – Explore Bucharest’s Bellu Cemetery

Who says the afterlife has to be serious? Step into Bellu Cemetery, where Bucharest's most colorful characters lie in rest, but not in silence. In this witty, self-guided quest, you will follow clever clues through gravestones and memorials, uncovering bizarre facts, local legends, and surprisingly humorous tales from beyond the grave. Meet Romania's greatest poet, an alpinist killed by an eagle, the man who invented the jet engine, and the richest Romanian of his era. At each grave, a puzzle. At each puzzle, a story stranger than fiction. Bellu Cemetery is one of the most remarkable cultural landmarks in Romania. This is probably the most fun way to visit it.

- Visit the grave of Mihai Eminescu, Romania's national poet, and help him finish a verse he started 130 years ago - Discover the story of Sophia Mavrodin, the alpinist whose father brought the rock to the cemetery after the eagle brought her down - Find the Umbrella Lady, the only saint in Bellu, and the Prime Minister whose coffee recipe outlasted his political career - End at the bronze temple of Grigore Cantacuzino, the Mogul, and count the leaves on his tree

Start: Tomb Mihai Eminescu. Finish: Grigore Cantacuzino (40). 11 challenges included.