Cemeteries

A cemetery is any place with graves, tombs and memorials. The range of types and appearances is vast, from extensive mausolea with huge architectural elabrations, to unmarked plots of ground with hardly a sign it is a resting place.

In some cases royal memorials and tombs may be the central point of vast grounds that might not always be known as a cemetery as such. Such sites are extensively visited for a wide range of reasons, depending on the local or national culture, they might be pilgrimage sites as well.

Buy

There are limited ranges of cemetery souvenirs: usually guide books. Some cemeteries have meticulous and elaborate guides.

Famous cemeteries

Africa
  • Egypt: City of the Dead (Cairo)

Americas
  • Argentina: Buenos Aires - Recoleta cemetery
  • Mexico:
  • United States:
Arlington National Cemetery

Asia
  • China:
    • Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing.
    • Cemetery of Confucius (Kong Lin, Qufu)
    • Hong Kong Cemetery in Hong Kong
    • Zhalan Cemetery in Beijing
    • Thirteen Ming Imperial Tombs in Beijing
  • Indonesia:
    • Giri Tunggal Heroes' Cemetery, Semarang
    • Ereveld Leuwigajah in Cimahi, Dutch war cemetery.
  • Israel:
    • Mount of Olives, ancient famous cemetery in Jerusalem with ancient funerary monuments.
    • Mount Herzl National Cemetery, Jerusalem
    • Sanhedria Cemetery, ancient cemetery of the Sanhedrin, in Jerusalem
    • Yarkon Cemetery in Petah Tikva, the new Pantheon of famous people.
    • Trumpeldor Cemetery famous cemetery in Tel Aviv of famous people from the 19th century.
    • Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv.
  • Japan:
    • Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo
    • Zoshigaya Cemetery in Tokyo
    • Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo, controversial in part because it is where 6 Class A war criminals executed after World War II are buried.
  • Philippines:
  • South Korea: Seoul National Cemetery in Seoul.
  • Thailand: Royal Cemetery in Bangkok
  • Turkey:
    • Turkish State Cemetery in Ankara, with its monuments recalling the ancient Turkish structures of Central Asia, is where many major civilian and military figures of the republican era were interred, although notably Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of the founder of the republic, Kemal Atatürk, is a separate site.
    • Karacaahmet Cemetery between Üsküdar and Kadıköy on the Asian Side of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, an expanse of 300 hectares (740 acres) of cypress woodland, is the largest Turkish cemetery and its foundation in the 14th century predates the Fall of Constantinople.
    • A footpath from the banks of the Golden Horn in Istanbul cuts through the Eyüp Cemetery, an Ottoman-era burial ground where the tradition dictates that the marble headstones of men are topped by a turban while those of women have floral designs. A gondola lift line passes over part of the cemetery as well.
    • The massive and highly elaborate tombstones at the Ahlat Cemetery (on the Lake Van near Tatvan), carved out of local volcanic rocks, date back to the local Ahlatshah Kingdom of the 11th–12th centuries and are typical of the medieval Turkish art.
    • Gallipoli hosts several military cemeteries of soldiers from Turkey and the Commonwealth nations (Australia and New Zealand in particular) fallen during the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I.

Europe
Noratus Cemetery
  • Armenia: Noratus Cemetery, near Sevan on the lake of the same name, has the world's largest collection of khachkars—Armenia's massive, highly elaborately carved traditional headstones with a cross in the centre.
  • Austria: Vienna (see Culture section about Death, and Zentralfriedhof)
  • Balkans: Stećci Medieval Tombstones Graveyards
  • Bulgaria: Central Sofia Cemetery in Sofia.
  • Czech Republic: Old Jewish Cemetery, Vyšehrad Cemetery (Prague)
  • Finland: Hietaniemi Cemetery, Helsinki
  • France:
  • Greece:
    • First Cemetery in Athens (Athens)
  • Hungary:
  • Italy:
    • Brion Cemetery near Treviso by Carlo Scarpa, famous 20th century Italian architect
    • Etruscan Necropolis outside of Tarquinia
    • Isola di San Michele - cemetery island of Venice
    • Protestant Cemetery in Rome
  • Poland: National necropoles: Powązki in Warsaw and Rakowice in Kraków, Pęksowy Brzyzek National Cemetery in Zakopane
  • Portugal: Cemetery of Pleasures (Cemitério dos Prazeres) in Lisbon
  • Romania: Merry Cemetery in Săpânța, Maramureş; Ghencea Cemetery in Bucharest.
  • Russia: Novodevichy Cemetery (Moscow); Shirokorechenskoye Kladbishche Cemetery (Mafia cemetery, Yekaterinburg)
  • Sweden: Woodland Cemetery (Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm/Söderort), a world heritage site.
  • Ukraine: Lychakiv Cemetery (Lviv); Grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, a major site of Chasidic pilgrimage
  • United Kingdom: Stonehenge, Highgate Cemetery (London), Brookwood (Woking)

Oceania
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See also
Tombstone tourist
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