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Significant Cemiteries of Europe

Many cemeteries have been turning up over the centuries, in parks and places of pilgrimage located within the perimeter of cities. Since they were located outside urban areas, but today many of them are integrated in the city.
The Ohlsdorf in Hamburg (Germany) is the largest cemetery-park in the world, with an area of ​​approximately 391 hectares, also the fourth largest cemetery in the world. Since it's opening in 1877, about 1.4 million dead were buried here in the shade of leafy trees and conifers.
The land is crossed by roads with a total length of 17km. A special bus line guarantees the transportation to the area.
 In addition to a museum, there is an information center from which are offered guided tours. "Demand is very large and has increased significantly in recent years," said a spokesman for the cemetery, Lutz Rehkopf.
Ohlsdorf has become a major tourist destination in Hamburg.
 Currently concerts theatrical performances and film screenings are offered.



St. Petri Kirche Hamburg


Père Lachaise inParis is the largest and at the same time the most famous cemetery in Paris. It was built in the early nineteenth century to replace many smaller cemeteries that had to be closed at that time.
For a city as busy as during the day, it is very quiet. The park is crossed by wide streets lined with marble and granite tombs. Many of them were deteriorating and partially falling over time, but the remains are still standing.
Every year, about two million people visit the cemetery where the stars and artists like Edith Piaf, Frederic Chopin and Jim Morrison are buried. Their graves are pilgrimage sites.

Père Lachaise. Tombe of Chopin
The Zentralfriedhof of Viena was established in 1874. With an area of ​​about 2.5 square kilometers and 330,000 graves is now one of the largest in Europe.
 In 1863, the City of Vienna decided to build a large cemetery outside the city, whose capacity limit has not yet been reached for the final resting all the dead of the Austrian capital.
Here are buried musicians and composers such as Ludwig van Beethoven or the contemporary Udo Jügens and Falco.
 With its architectural style Art Deco , the cemetery is one of the special attractions of the city. In April, May, June, September and October are available by reservation, guided tours that last two hours.

Zentralfriedhof

With an area of ​​one hectare, the Jewish cemetery in Prague is relatively small. Still, in this cemetery, located in the old town of Prague, the remains of about 100,000 people are buried in some cases, about 12 layers of earth for lack of space.
The funerary monuments, some of which date back to the fifteenth century, are joined to each other. As in the Jewish ghetto there was not the possibility of extending the cemetery, it still holds today its historical dimension.

Old Jewish Cemetery

At the cemetery Abbey Whitsby in the north of England, lives the ghost Dracula; at least that's what the novel that Abraham Stoker wrote 1897 is about.
 Supposedly it was where the famous vampire Whitsby landed during a trip to London. Since then, countless fans of the book visit the cemetery each year, in the County Yorkshire.
Situated on a cliff, the cemetery is near the sea and in the center was buit the historic Church of Santa Maria. Some parts of the temple dating back to the eleventh century. For over 100 years that there are not made burials, among other reasons, because of the risk that dead bodies being unearthed by landslides that occur frequently in the area.

Whitby Abbey

In 1808, the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte ordered that the dead in the city of Venice gen to be buried in a public cemetery to be built on the island of San Cristoforo della Pace. To this end have been constructed high walls and a monumental entrance.
However, the island-cemetery soon proved to be too small, so it was decided to establish communication with the neighbor island of San Michele. The channel separating the two islands was filled. Since then, the "island of death" was gradually increased to the current area of ​​17.6 hectares. It is the only fully stated island as an island cemetery.

San Michele Island

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