Just a couple of miles away form the Black Sea you can find Sulina, the most eastern town in Romania. It is the last port of the river Danube, before flowing in the sea, and it can be reached only by water. Last year I visited Sulina for the first time and I took some photos that I would like to share with you.
In Sulina there is a unique place that makes this small fishermen town very special: the cemetery. It is the only cosmopolitan cemetery in the country, a place where people from all over the world rest in peace.
Christians, muslims or jews are buried in the cemetery of Sulina. But also many captains, pilots, sailors and soldiers can be found here, from the 1800s, when Sulina was a "porto franco", meaning a free port, and the headquarters of the European Commission of the Danube.
In here there are also some graves full of mystery and legends. Like the rich greek pirate that is said to be buried near a huge treasure, like the Princess without a name, like the two lovers that died together or the british couple that faked their death by making a double empty grave and left for Africa...
A strange and interesting place that needs to be discovered by anyone who loves mystery and legends. I hope you enjoy these sad, but storytelling images.
The old retired hearse from the Sulina cemetery
Sulina is the most eastern town in Romania and the last one before ships from Europe coming on the Danube enter the Black Sea
The old lighthouse museum in Sulina can be found near the cemetery
George Holberry, aged 17, from the Lavinia Stockton ship
A grave written in 3 languages: hebrew, romanian, german
When Margaret, aged 23, fell in the Danube, William, 25, jumped to save her. They both died in 1868 and their graves put together.
The grave of William, the young man who gave his life to save Margaret
The double grave without names that is supposed to be empty
The tomb stone of an unnamed Princess
The grave of the pirate that is said to have been very rich
One of the many graves of ship captains in Sulina
The tomb of two sisters that died together, when the small one fell into a fountain and her big sisters jumped to rescue her
A bunch of old crosses put together in the Sulina cemetery
Most of the graves have maritime decorations
A lighthouse from the 1800s rusts near Sulina, just before the Danube enters the sea
