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Europe Invites... to Cemeteries

Europe Invites... to Cemeteries

Vienna's Zentralfriedhof cemetery is visited not only by tourists

The Protestant Cemetery in Rome is located in the Testaccio district on the Aventine Hill. Many prominent figures of art are buried there – painter Karl Bryullov, poet John Keats, artist Alexander Ivanov, actor Renato Salvatori.

Vienna's Zentralfriedhof cemetery is famous for the graves of Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Johann Strauss II, as well as presidents of the Second Republic, including Karl Renner.

The Jewish Cemetery in Prague was founded in the first half of the 15th century. The oldest surviving tombstone is over the grave of Avigdor Kara, who died in 1439, and the latest is that of Moses Beck, who died in 1789. Buried here are outstanding figures of science, politics, and art, including Yehuda Loew ben Bezalel (better known as Rabbi Loew, who, according to legend, created the clay giant Golem).

As Travel.ru notes, the legend of the Golem was included in the list of the scariest attractions of Prague, published by the Czech national tourism authority CzechTourism.

• When planning to visit a necropolis, many tourists bring wreaths of artificial flowers or just live flowers to place on the graves of celebrities. Official delegations order custom wreaths in advance, as these services are highly developed in any foreign city.

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