If the day, the weather and the state of mind are in harmony with the surroundings, then you can feel yourself as a part of what was before and what will come later, because "birth and death are only doors to the future." Quite unexpected were the results of a survey conducted by one of the travel publications in England. As it turned out, the most popular place among tourists is not architectural sights and museums, but an ordinary cemetery. But among the ordinary burial places, there are famous memorial complexes that cannot be missed.
Parisian Pere Lachaise
In the eastern part of the French capital, there is the famous Pere Lachaise cemetery, which on 48 hectares shows tourists exquisite examples of tombstone sculpture in the open air. To get to know the City of the Dead in detail, without missing anything interesting, you must immediately take a cemetery map at the entrance, on which the burial places of celebrities are detailed.
The history of the cemetery began in 1804 rather ordinary. In those days it was a distant outskirts of Paris and there were few who wanted to rest here. The Paris authorities decided to conduct an advertising campaign, reburying the mortal remains of La Fontaine and Moliere here, after which the process got better. Today the ashes of about a million people are buried in the cemetery.
Here crowds of fans sing songs at the grave of The Doors soloist Jim Morrison, fans of the outrageous writer Oscar Wilde write love confessions on his tombstone, and the breeze quietly flips through the musical scores left by Frederic Chopin.
Vienna musical cemetery
The Vienna Cemetery is three million graves, more than two million tourists a year, its own railway and bus running through the cemetery. And of course, there are burials of great classical composers here. Father and son Strauss, Ludwig Beethoven, Antonio Salieri, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert and many others found their last shelter here. In a separate part of the cemetery, there is the presidential crypt, in which all the presidents of Austria have been buried since 1951.
Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires
Hardly anywhere else there is such a cemetery-pantheon, as in the capital of Argentina. Almost the entire Argentine elite is buried in the Recoleta cemetery. Nobel laureates, great military leaders and twenty-five presidents of Argentina have found their last refuge here. These magnificent mausoleums and crypts were created by famous painters and sculptors. Locals keep joking that it's cheaper to buy all of Buenos Aires than to be buried in the Recoleta cemetery. Here, the most popular grave for tourists is the burial of Eva Peron, the first lady of Argentina, actress and true spiritual mentor of the nation.
Vagankovskoe cemetery in Moscow
Vagankovskoye is one of the largest memorial complexes in the capital of Russia. An interesting fact is that the name of the cemetery fully justifies its content. In the old days, wandering artists were called Vagants. It is the Vagankovskoye cemetery that trembles the memory of many famous artists, singers, screenwriters, directors, writers and poets. Oleg Dal, Grigory Vitsyn, Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Vysotsky, Leonid Filatov and many others are buried here.
