Having failed miserably to locate the old cemetery in Maribor, which is somewhere near the Cathedral, we decided to visit Pobrežje Cemetery instead. A cemetery in three parts, it’s home…
From the sterility of the Normandy American Cemetery to the colours of the Commonwealth’s Bayeux War Cemetery, I was completely unprepared for the Mont-de-Huisnes German war cemetery. A total of…
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…
