Ohlsdorf Cemetery is bigger than Central Park in New York. It gets a lot of traffic, living and dead with about 7000 burials a year. It’s been around since the…
Billed as a cemetery park or rural cemetery, at 400 ha Ohlsdorf Cemetery is the largest in the world. As ordinary cemeteries go, it’s the fourth-largest. And if you exclude…
Home to the first Renaissance church in Venice, Isola di San Michele (the island of San Michele) is more famous today as the burial place of Russian composer, Igor Stravinsky,…
Graveyards are great levellers. There rarely are posh parts and poor parts. A grave is a grave. Yes, the markers or the headstones might reflect the wealth of those interred…
In the 1989 film Field of Dreams, while Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is walking through a cornfield, he hears someone whisper, ‘If you build it, he will come.’ He figured out…
Three hundred thirty-one soldiers lie in this military cemetery (Vojenský cintorín), a stone’s throw from the Austrian border. Born in nine different countries, whatever differences they had are buried with…
The Slavín Monument with its Slavín Military Cemetery is the high point of Bratislava – literally. It’s here people come to look down on the city, to get a feel…
The great expanse of land known as The Curragh is home to The Curragh Camp, an army base and military college that has been on the go since 1855. Established…
I have vague memories of Clonmacnoise from my primary school history lessons. I know that the monastery was founded by St Ciaran and seven or was it eight of his…
