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List of famous cemeteries

This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. Please add as needed.

Table of contents

1 Argentina 2 Australia 3 Austria 4 Canada 5 People's Republic of China 6 Czech Republic 7 Denmark 8 Egypt 9 France 10 Greece 11 Ireland 12 Italy 13 Israel 14 Lithuania 15 Mexico 16 Poland 17 Romania 18 Russia 19 Slovenia 20 Sweden 21 Taiwan 22 Ukraine 23 United Kingdom 24 United States of America 25 Vietnam 26 See also:

Argentina

• La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires - burial site of Eva Perón, F1 race driver, Juan Manuel Fangio

Australia

• Rookwood Cemetery, (Sydney) - at over 280ha, reputedly the largest burial site in the Southern Hemisphere, first used in 1867.
• Waverly Cemetery (Sydney) - picturesque coastal site, many local historical figures.

Austria

• Zentralfriedhof, Vienna - Famous Austrian singer Wolfgang Ambros wrote "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" for its centennial in 1974.
• Kapuzinergruft, Vienna - Final resting place of 145 members of the House of Habsburg

Canada

• Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia - the RMS Titanic cemetery.
• Mount Royal and Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemeteries on Mount Royal, Montreal, Quebec
• Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario.

People's Republic of China

• Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain
  • Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao
• Bukit China in Malacca is the largest (25 ha) Chinese cemetery outside Mainland China, with graves that date back to the Ming dynasty.
• Cemetery of Zhaojun, Inner Mongolia
• Mawangdui at Changsha, Hunan
• Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Xi'an
• Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, Inner Mongolia
• Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, Beijing
• Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum in Hong Kong - earliest funeral architecture in Hong Kong
• Shisanling at Beijing - the thirteen imperial mausoleums of Ming Dynasty
• Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing
• Tomb of Marquis Yi near Wuhan in Hubei province - probably best preserved funeral architecture of the Warring States Period
• Tomb at Yinque at Linyi County, Shandong province

Czech Republic

• Jewish Cemetery, Prague
• Sedlec ossuary

Denmark

• Roskilde cathedral, the burial place for most Danish kings and queens

Egypt

• Great Pyramid of Giza
• Saqqara
• Valley of the Kings

France

• Cimetière de Bagneux, Paris - burial place for Jean Vigo, Gribouille, Alfred Jarry and others.
• Catacombs of Paris, millions of remains in caves and tunnels under the city of Paris.
• Les Invalides, Paris - war heroes including Napoleon
• Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, burial place for Edith Wharton, Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte and others.
• Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris - resting place of Emile Zola, Edgar Degas, Georges Feydeau, other artists and writers.
• Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris - serves the great artistic quarter of Montparnasse, including the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Seberg, Serge Gainsbourg and Man Ray. Pierre Laval and Porfirio Diaz are also buried here.
• Cimetière de Passy, Paris - Claude Debussy, Edouard Manet.
• The Panthéon, Paris - France's most honored, including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
• Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris - resting place of artists, writers (including Oscar Wilde), and Jim Morrison. Many French Holocaust victims are buried there.
• Saint Denis Basilica, Paris - burial site for French Royalty.
• Cimetière de Saint-Ouen, Paris - where Joan of Arc was led for the public renunciation of her sins. Some of those buried here are the painters Suzanne Valadon, Jules Pascin, and tennis star, Suzanne Lenglen.
• Cimetière Saint-Vincent, a small cemetery in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris contains the graves of such notables as Arthur Honegger, Marcel Carné, Maurice Utrillo and others.
• Saint Remi Basilica, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France
• World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Collville-sur-Mer - honors American soldiers who died during operations in Europe during World War II

Greece

• Kerameikon - ancient cemetery in Athens

Ireland

• Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

Italy

• Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa Dei Frari
• Catacombs of Rome
• English Cemetery of Florence
• Mausoleum of Theodoric
• Protestant Cemetery, Rome resting place for Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats
• San Michele, Venice, resting place for Ezra Pound.

Israel

• Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem - in almost continual use from First Temple times until today. Oskar Schindler is buried here.

Lithuania

• Rossa, Vilnius

Mexico

• Panteón de Dolores, Mexico City

Poland

• Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw - Among those interred here are film director Krzysztof Kieslowski and Nobel Prize winning author Wladyslaw Reymont.

Romania

• Cimitirul Bellu, Bucharest

Russia

• Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow - many famous Russians and citizens of the former Soviet Union buried here including Nikita Khrushchev, the writer Anton Chekhov, and composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.
• Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg, Russia. Among those interred here is author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and composers Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and César Cui.

Slovenia

• Žale, Ljubljana

Sweden

• Riddarholmskyrkan, Stockholm

Taiwan

• Jin Bao Mountain

Ukraine

• Lychakivskiy Cemetery, Lviv - Among those interred here are poet Ivan Franko.

United Kingdom

• Bunhill Fields, London, England - nonconformist resting place of William Blake, Daniel Defoe.
• Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, England
• Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, London, England
• Highgate Cemetery, London - the tomb of Karl Marx, topped with a huge bronze bust, is here; Highgate is notable for its "Egyptian catacombs", where John Galsworthy, George Eliot, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were buried.
• Kensal Green Cemetery, London, oldest English cemetery of its type still in operation, many elaborate Victorian mausoleums, including those of William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope.
• St Botolph Aldersgate, London
• St Margarets, London
• St Paul's Cathedral, London
• Victoria Gate, Hyde Park
• Westminster Abbey, London

United States of America

See : List of United States cemeteries

Vietnam

• Maidich National Cemetery - cemetery established after French occupation ended in 1954 as a place of worship for heroes of the people. Those buried here include statesmen, writers, poets, and others who have close ties to Vietnam's current government.

See also:

• List of Memorials

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