Favorite European cemeteries?
 

In Paris, one would start with Pere Lachaise, right? Who other than James Morrison is buried there? Any others in Paris and environs?

London - Highgate? Why? Others?

Other cities?

I've found some gems in the US, what about in European cities, or outside those cities?

Lots more than Jim Morrison.

http://amvabecreations.hubpages.com/...chaiseCemetery

The Jewish cemeteries in Budapest and Prague for the emotional aspect of them (rather than for the fame of the buried).

I liked Montparnasse in Paris. (Google for who you will find.) it is an easy cemetery to walk around.
Also thought Jewish cemetery in Prague was a must see.
St. Kevin cemetery in Wicklow Ireland also very interesting.

We wished we had more time at the Necropolis in Glasgow. It's really fantastic looking--very dramatically situated .

Also spent a fair amount of time in the big cemetery in Vienna (can't remember the name). The Russian graves were touching as well as the old Jewish section.

Many famous people in Pere LaChaise. The Holocause memorials section in large, and very moving.

Monparness very good.

Highgate old section (timed tours) and the new section are both incredible. London.

The Protestant Cemetary in Rome.

I've not been to the cemetary island in Venice, but I want to go.

In France, St Jean Cap Ferrat has a remarkable cemetery that hugs the edges of the peninsula, with waves crashing below the visitors feet.

In Portofino, the hill top cemetary is a special example of a welled Italian cemetary with an exceedingly great position and fabulous views.

I've been tempted out to Kensall Green in London to look for Trollope but didn't find him, Did him a mugger though.

Lots more than Jim Morrison in Pere Lachaise. Just off the top of my head there is Chopin, George Bizet, Oscar Wilde , Sarah Bernhardt, Gertrude Stein, Delacroix, and many others. This is the gold standard of cemeteries.

The Staglieno cemetery in Genoa is impressive. A good reminder that we're all here on a temporary basis.

The most beautiful one I know is the old Johannisfriedhof in Nuremberg, where all the city's V.I.P.'s have been buried since the 16th century, with roses blooming over all graves: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/1ffb0d/

Then allow me to mention the Jewish cemetery in Wroclaw: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/23db8a/ A magical place.

Agree that Prague Jewish cemetery is a must.

Then the military cemeteries are to be seen :
US in Normandy, the German one too, quite moving, and all these less known from WW1 in the north and in Belgium.

We also liked the cemetery of St Tropez, along the seaside.

Mirogoj Cemetery just outside of Zagreb.

Cemeteries in the Muradiye Mosque complex in Bursa.

The cemeteries of the Alexander Nevski Lavra in Moscow.

Varaždin's main cemetery.

The cemetery of the Eyüp Sultan Mosque in Istanbul.

The St. Ana Cemetery in Šibenik.

The cemetery of the Convent of St. John in Müstair.

The old Jewish cemetery in Warsaw.

The Soldier's Dog Cemetery at Edinburgh Castle.

I'm skipping all the cemeteries that are primarily devoted to those who died in war.

(BTW, for scenic merit, I'm not sure any beats Okuno-in, in Koya-san, Japan. JMO)

The pet cemetery in the suburbs of Paris is most definitely worthy of note. Rin Tin Tin is buried there. He was even flown home from Hollywood for his burial.

http://anyportinastorm.proboards.com...8/dog-cemetery

There is a big one in Milan, with many family vaults. I like them for their attaction to the architecture of the moment and the hubris.

Imagine, for example, one which is a black marble massive pyramid (1890s?), and yet, in the history of the world the contents were and are worthless.

St.Symphorien Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Mons, Belgium. It was created by the Germans and contains graves of both German and Commonwealth soldiers, and a joint memorial. It includes the graves of the first and last Commnwealth soldiers killed in the First World War. The first was a British soldier killed in the Battle of Mons in August 1914 and the last a Canadian killed in the streets of Mons minutes before the armistice on November 11 1918.

Some of these cemeteries are very ornate. If you want to see something more modest and peaceful, there is the God's Acre (Gottesacker) in Herrnhut, Germany, not far from Dresden. It's located up a small hill and overlooks the nearby villages. I have ancestors buried there, so it has a personal connection for me.
http://www.herrnhut.de/fileadmin/med...sch_EN_150.pdf

Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
Alexander Nevsky Cemetery in St Petersburg.

The Merry Cemetery in Remeti, Maramures, Romania:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mksfca/4186111094

The Nice cemetery is up in the hills, next to the Franciscan Monastery and Matisse Museum. Both Matisse and Dufy are buried in the cemetery, located off to the left of the municipal rose garden.

Our favorite cemetery is one we came upon quite by accident in the Champagne region. It was out in the countryside, just a small plot with graves of about a dozen U.S. soldiers who died in WWII. Locals created the cemetery and keep it up very well.

Of course, the American cemetery in Normandy is one of the best known and most moving. So is the nearby one for fallen German soldiers.

Any one I am not in.

Apologies for the multiple typos in my last post on this thread. Too late at night.

I just want to add another cemetery that I'm fond of. It's tiny, and behind gates, but the Pet Cemetery at Hyde Park is sweet and charming. It's another Victorian cemetery; they were good at it.

Hallstatt cemetery is so picturesque, on the hillside overlooking a lake and mountains

https://flic.kr/p/xG3HoY

Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.

Thanks, all! And keep 'em coming, I'm archiving all of this. (Another time, I'll start working on US cemeteries).

(FWIW, I know quite well that Jim's not alone in Pere LaChaise - just thought singling him out might prime the posting pump. It worked.)

Has anyone visited Kensal Green cemetery in London? Inspired by Pere Lachaise. Isambard Kingdom Brunel is among the 'residents'.

It's on my 'to do' list but haven't visited yet.

Eyam Parish Churchyard in context of the village and its history, UK.

I took an almost 4 hour tour of Pere Lachaise while I was in Paris at the beginning of August. In my many trips to Paris, I had never been there and it was #1 on my hit list for my recent trip. The tours are only in French, but, if your French is good, I recommend you check out the tour. There are guides to Paris called Pariscope and La Semaine a Paris that I always pick up when I am there. They list everything going on. The walking tours in French are in the back. Unfortunately, none of them are offered in English. I always try and do at least one. I did a Moliere themed one as well. The guides are always excellent. The guy who does Pere Lachaise specializes in cemeteries--and he does know everything about the cemetery. Really interesting, but exhausting tour. I was almost ready for a coffin by the end.

It is odd we have visited many European countries, some many times and we do not visit many cemeteries. Or we have they just did not make an impression. That said the most memorable were Pere Lachaise, Montparnasse, and the Jewish Cemetery in Prague.

Two more: Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh with its fascinating monuments and gravestones--a gloomy place even on a sunny day. Also St Giles, Stoke Poges, a simple country churchyard with no notable graves but famous nonetheless.

I sometimes enjoy a wander around an old English churchyard to look at the graves.
Occasionally I find an interesting graveyard in the Netherlands, but not often since space is in short supply and graves are cleared and reused.
I have visited the American cemetery in Margraten, and the Russian cemetery in Leusden.

I have visited small old graveyards in towns and villages in the U.S. too.

Never been to any famous ones. No desire to see where Jim or Karl or Elvis or Marilyn or Kurt is buried.

Almost forgot -- the cemetery of Comillas!

Souda Bay in Crete. Small but perfectly formed. Peaceful and heartbreaking

The Camposanto in the Piazza degli Miracoli (next to the Leaning Tower) in Pisa, is amazing.

I think Bilbo is referring to the Cimetero Monumentale in Milan. Our friends who live there told us we shouldn't miss it, but we did.

In Hallstatt, after visiting the cemetery, visit the little ossuary chapel where they stored the bones of corpses they had to exhume when the cemetery ran out of space. The skulls are decorated with a cross, and often the name and date of death. Some are more elaborately decorated.

I was very impressed by the little cemetery on the Island of Iona where monks have been buried since the 9th century. It was also the burial spot for many Scots, Irish, and Norwegian kings, although none of their graves can be identified now. The lonely windblown spot, the beauty and tranquility of the surroundings, and the decaying gravestones were very moving. There was an inscription inside the abbey, quoting (I think) St. Columba as saying that "on this earth there's no better place to live or die than Iona."

Cemetério dos Prazeres em Lisboa, Portugal.

Glad Herrnhut was mentioned (thanks to Weisser Tee) - it was just voted No 1 of the 'most fascinating historic cemeteries in Germany'.

http://www.faszination-friedhof.de/inhalt/sieger
(in German only)

My top pick is Lychakiv, Lviv.

Also, many English parish churchyards.

Brompton Cemetery in London I found very fascinating.

It's one of 7 officially deemed 'historic London cemeteries':

https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/brompton-cemetery

Don't just visit the Jewish cemetery in Prague. There is another very interesting cemetery high up on a hill--Vysehrad Cemetary.

And, you'll probably be interested in this website dedicated to traveling to interesting cemeteries. You'll find lots of ideas.



http://cemeterytravel.com/2012/05/09...hrad-cemetery/

I like Isola di San Michele, Venice. So near yet so far-seeming, quiet when the rest isn't so much, the boat ride over. I find it very romantic.

http://sleepinggardens.blogspot.com/...le-venice.html

Glasnevin in Dublin
Pere Lachaise in Paris
The Jewish cemetery in Worms, Germany

Tulip: I've been to Kensall Green Cemetery.

I mentioned it on my first poorly typed post on this thread. It was a longish trip from whichever tourist neighborhood we were staying in at the time in London. Underground and then over ground train. NO tourists on the second train, or even at the station.

I was sort of disappointed. I was on a literary pilgrimage to find Anthony Trollope's grave, which was very hard to find, even though I had directions and a picture. The cemetery wasn't that interesting, nothing to compare to even the "new" portions of Highgate.

If I remember correctly, there was a hill with views of Wormwood Scrubs and some gasworks.

While we were there, the police came through twice looking for a mugger. They questioned us both times and the second time they had the victim in the car with them.

It was memorable but not for the monuments.

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I nearly forgot an incredibly beautiful cemetery that I would urge anyone to visit: St Just in Roseland, in Cornwall, England.

It's a parish churchyard, but in a charming setting, elaborately pathed, with lovely gardens and pretty monuments. So nice, I would go back.

The Holy Sands in Worms is well worth a visit.

The medieval Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt still has a few 1000 of their original gravestones that survived being demolished by the nazis. This is quite an old cemetery dating back to 1272, and it is surrounded by the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Wall.

The main cemetery in Frankfurt is very beautiful and at 172 acres, it is the larges cemetery complex in Germany. Gorgeous sculptures, a 120 m. Crypt Hall, magnificent mausoleums and the setting is like a park. It includes 2 large Jewish sections, one used from 1828-1929, and a newer one being used presently. In the older Jewish section, you will find the graves of the Rothschilds, Paul Ehrlich, Daniel Oppenheim, war graves from Jewish soldiers who died in WWI, Bertha Poppenheim, and Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch to name just a few.

In the main cemetery itself, one of the more touching spots is the small section where the children of American military members were buried.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIxYQELl33I