People all over the world are dying to get in to cemeteries, to graves, to mausoleums. Their bones are buried, their ashes encased, their lives summarised in the dash between two dates. Their epitaphs, their choice of grave marker, their obituary, all tell a story. Cemeteries are museums of life often overlooked, frequently ignored. When I travel, I travel to meet the living and to pay my respects to the dead. These are my stories.
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 [...]
