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This is a list of famous cemeteries , mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. Please add as needed.
Rookwood Cemetery , (Sydney ) _ at over 280ha, reputedly the largest burial site in the Southern Hemisphere, first used in 1867.Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane - the oldest and largest Brisbane cemetery, was originally utilised by the earliest colonists. Resting place of author Steele Rudd . Waverly Cemetery (Sydney) - picturesque coastal site, many local historical figures. Island of the dead - Pt Arthur Tasmania - early convict graves
Cementerio General de Chile in Santiago, Chile , is the burial place for all but one of Chile's deceased Presidents including Salvador Allende plus other notables such as singers Víctor Jara and People's Republic of China
Roskilde cathedral, the burial place for most Danish kings and queens
Hietaniemi Cemetery, 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.Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery Cimetière de Pantin in Paris is the burial site of the singer Damia, and the Cancan dancer, known as La Goulue , and other notables.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 famous persons such as Oscar Wilde , Jim Morrison and Frederic Chopin . 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 , France Germany
Kerameikon - ancient cemetery in Iran Astan-e Quds-e Razavi in Mashhad Bam cemetery in Bam Behesht-e Zahra in Iranian cemetery Gurestan Bastani, Bushehr (the ancient cemetery, Bushehr ) Maghbarat ol-Shoara (the Poets’ cemetery in Tabriz ) Naksh-i Rustam (Achaemenid Royal Cemetery) Shah-Abdol-Azim Cemetery, Rayy , Tehran Shah Cheragh, Shiraz
Glasnevin Cemetery , Italy Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze , Florence - resting place of Donatello and many members of the Medici family.Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze , Florence - resting place of Galileo , Machiavelli , Michelangelo , Gioacchino Rossini and many other notablesEnglish Cemetery of Florence Porte Sante , Florence - resting place of Carlo Collodi and many others.Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari , Venice - resting place of Titian , Claudio Monteverdi and the heart of Antonio Canova .Cimitero Monumentale in Milan is a very large cemetery that includes the Famedio (Temple of Fame) where Giuseppe Verdi , Vladimir Horowitz , Alessandro Manzoni , Arturo Toscanini , and others are interred.Camposanto , Pisa Catacombs of Rome Mausoleum of Theodoric Protestant Cemetery, Rome - resting place for Percy Bysshe Shelley , John Keats San Michele, Venice - Venice's main cemetery and resting place of Ezra Pound , Igor Stravinsky and Israel Mount of Olives , in Lithuania
Cimitirul Bellu , Bucharest Cimitirul Vesel , Sapanta (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 .Vagankovskoye Cemetery , Moscow, Russia is the burial site for Inga Artamonova , Igor Talkov , Sergei Yesenin and others.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 .Persian Shiite Cemetery, St. Petersburg Peter and Paul Fortress , St. Petersburg - all Russian Tsars since Slovenia
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