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Cities of the dead, the world's most beautiful cemeteries, Yolanda Zappaterra ; with contributions from Sarah Guy [and four others]

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Cities of the dead

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Yolanda Zappaterra ; with contributions from Sarah Guy [and four others]

the world's most beautiful cemeteries

Cities of the Dead takes us on a tour of memorial sites, ranging from monastic settlements to grand cathedrals, Shinto shrines to Gothic chapels, tombs and crypts. Enjoy tales of myths and monsters, grave-robbers, pilgrimages, spiritual retreats, remembrance and community. Marvel in cemeteries with a hundred thousand to a handful of graves which feature famous headstones, weeping angels, ocean views, woodlands, thousands of glowing lanterns and a tomb of poets. From London's famous Highgate Cemetery, which houses famous names from Karl Marx to Malcolm McLaren, George Eliot to Christina Rosetti, to Hawaii's breathtaking Valley of the Temples, and Sydney's Waverley Cemetery, this book spans the globe to bring you the most fascinating, intriguing and evocative cemeteries across cultures and continents. Together with evocative images, the stories behind these notable burial sites bring these sanctuaries to life, detailing the features that make them special, highlighting both similarities and differences between time periods, religions and cultures, and showing how cemeteries are about and for the living as much as the dead

Introduction -- The Americas. Pisagua Viejo Cementério (Tarapacá region, Chile) ; Recoleta Cemetery (Buenos Aires, Argentina) ; Mount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge Massachusetts, USA) ; Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) ; Mount Hope (Rochester, New York, USA) ; Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn, New York, USA) ; Bonaventure Cemetery (Savannah, Georgia, USA) ; Cemitério São João Batista (Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) ; Graceland Cemetery (Chicago, Illinois, USA) ; Cementerio Santa Maŕía Magdalena de Pazzis (San Juan, Puerto Rico) ; Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington County, Virginia, USA) ; Mount Pleasant (Toronto, Canada) ; Cementerio Municipal Sara Braun (Punta Arenas, Chile) ; Hollywood Forever Cemetery (Los Angeles, California, USA) ; Terlingua Cemetery (Terlingua, Texas, USA) ; Cementerio Municipal José María Azael Franco Guerrero (Tulcan Carchi province, Ecuador) ; Valley of the Temples (Kaneohe O'ahu, Hawaii, USA) -- Europe. Rèilig Odhrain (Iona, Inner Hebrides, Scotland) ; Glendalough Graveyard (Co. Wicklow, Ireland) ; St. Mary's Church Graveyard (Whitby, Yorkshire, England) ; Sighisoara Saxon Cemetery on the Hill (Sighisoara, Romania) ; The Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague (Prague, Czech Republic) ; Cimitero Acattolico (Rome, Italy) ; Dorotheenstadt Cemetery (Berlin, Germany) ; Père Lachaise (Paris, France) ; Okopowa Jewish Cemetery (Warsaw, Poland) ; Isola di San Michele (Venice, Italy) ; Glasgow Necropolis (Glagow, Scotland) ; Kensal Green Cemetery (London, England) ; Cemitério do Alto de São João (Lisbon, Portugal) ; Arnos Vale Cemetery (Bristol, England) ; Highgate Cemetery (London, England) ; Abney Park (London, England) ; Brompton Cemetery (London, England) ; Kerepesi Cemetery (Budapest, Hungary) ; Gran Camposanto (Messina, Italy) ; Zentralfriedhof (Vienna, Austria) ; Montjuïc Cemetery (Barcelona, Spain) ; Merry Cemetery (Săpânța, Romania) ; Skogskyrkogården Woodland Cemetery (Stockholm, Sweden) ; Douaumont Ossuary & Verdun Memorial (Verdun, France) ; Gubbio Cemetery (Mount Ingino, Umbria, Italy) -- Asia, Oceania & Africa. Mount of Olives (Jerusalem) ; Al-Qarafa (City of the Dead) (Cairo, Egypt) ; Okunoin Cemetery (Mount Koya, Japan) ; City of the Dead (Near Dargavs, Caucasus Mountains, Russia) ; Fadiouth Shell Island (Joal-Fadiouth, Mbour, Senegal) ; South Park Street Cemetery (Kolkata, India) ; Aoyama Cemetery (Tokyo, Japan) ; The Waverley Cemetery (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) ; Novodevichy Cemetery (Moscow, Russia) ; Issyk-Kul Cemeteries (Kyrgyzstan) ; Maqbaratol Shoara (Tabriz, Iran) -- Symbolism in cemeteries -- Visitor information