Cities of the Dead: The world's most beautiful cemeteries

by Yolanda Zappaterra

Overview

Discover the fascinating stories of the world’s most beautiful cemeteries, featuring spectacular photography, unique histories and famous residents.
 
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, 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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780711265783
Publisher:	Frances Lincoln
Publication date:	09/27/2022
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	372,923
Product dimensions:	9.15(w) x 11.70(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Yolanda Zappaterra is a London-based author, editor and researcher who has worked on more than thirty art, design and travel titles. She writes about architecture, art and travel, and contributes regularly to leisure and lifestyle magazines and specialist art and design magazines.

Table of Contents

Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Hollywood Forever, Los Angeles, California, USA
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Terlingua Cemetery, Texas, USA
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Mount Hope, Rochester, New York, USA
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Valley of the Temples, Kaneohe, Oʻahu, Hawaii, USA
Cementerio Municipal Sara Braun, Punta Arenas, Chile
Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cemitério São Joao Batista, Botofaga, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pisagua Viejo Cementério, Tarapacá region, Chile
Cementério Municipal Jose María Azaél Franco Guerrero, Tulcán, Carchi province, Ecuador
Cementerio Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Mount Pleasant, Toronto, Canada
Highgate Cemetery, London, England
Abney Park Cemetery, London, England
St Mary's Church Graveyard, Whitby, Yorkshire, England
Rèilig Odhrain, Iona, Scottish Hebrides, Scotland
Glasgow Necropolis, Glasgow, Scotland
Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol, England
Glendalough Graveyard, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Isola di San Michele, Venice, Italy
Pere Lachaise, Paris, France
Merry Cemetery (Cimitirul Vesel), Săpânța, Romania
Skogskyrkogarden Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden
Gubbio Cemetery Mount Ingino, Umbria, Italy
Sighisoara German Church on the Hill and Cemetery, Romania
Okopowa Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland
Montjuïc Cemetery, Barcelona, Spain
Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague, Czechoslovakia
Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest, Hungary
Cimitero Acattolico (Protestant Cemetery), Rome, Italy
Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England
Brompton Cemetery, London, England
Zentralfriedhof, Simmering, Vienna
Douaumont Ossuary/Verdun Memorial, Verdun, France
Gran Camposanto, Messina, Italy
Cemitério do Alto de São João, Lisbon, Portugal
City of the Dead, Dargavs, Caucasus Mountains, Russia
Waverley Cemetery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo, Japan
South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, India
Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, Israel
Okunoin Cemetery, Mount Koya, Japan
Maqbaratol Shoara, Tabriz, Iran
Novodevichye Cemetery, Moscow, Russia
Fadiouth Shell Island, Joal-Fadiouth, Mbour, Senegal
Issyk-Kul cemeteries, Kyrgyzstan
 

Editorial Reviews

05/01/2023

Travel writer Zappaterra (Amazing Art Adventures: Around the World in 400 Immersive Experiences), with input from other taphophiles, explores 50 cemeteries with notable architecture, landscaping, location, views, cultural contributions, or combinations of elements. Divided by region, the choices skew towards North America and Europe, with representation worldwide. Entries include at least one atmospheric photograph and information on location, date established, notable people buried within, historical notes, and in many cases, a quirky fact or story. VERDICT An engaging and moving wander, from the 3,000-year-old Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, to the Douaumont Ossuary and Verdun Memorial, containing the bones of more than 130,000 unidentified soldiers from World War I, to the starkly modern Maqbaratol Shoara in Iran.

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