10 interesting cemeteries in Europe

For those who like to while traveling to visit the historic grave, eTurboNews compiled a list of the most interesting cemeteries in Europe, relying on the opinions of site users TripAdviser. American Cemetery in Kolvil-sur-Mer (Colleville-sur-Mere) in France is located on a cliff overlooking the beach of Omaha, which unfolded the most bloody battles during the American landings in Normandy in June 1944. It is buried about 9,500 American soldiers and officers. Cemetery itself was shown in Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan." Pere-Lachaise in Paris - one of the most famous cemeteries in the world. It was the last refuge for many famous people. Buried here, Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde and other prominent individuals. Zentralfriedhof in Vienna is the second largest cemetery in Europe. Every year it is visited by thousands of passionate fans of classical music, to pay tribute to such composers as Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Strauss, Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms. Catacombs were built in the first century AD, in compliance with the burial traditions of the Etruscans. Over the centuries the local tombs were looted, flooding, and almost total destruction. Tourists visiting the catacombs in Rome, wrote rave reviews about the tour, conducted tours, which has been working here for over 28 years. London Highgate cemetery is full Gothic tombs and crypts. As at the Pere-Lachaise buried here are many celebrities, such as Karl Marx, George Eliot and Douglas Adams. Cemetery is also associated with the legend of the Highgate Vampire, which frightened Londoners in 1970. Cemetery Sudfriedhof in Leipzig - the biggest in the city. It is located next to the monument to the Battle of nations. Also, it is one of the largest and most beautiful park cemeteries in Germany. It grows a lot of rare trees and 10,000 bushes of rhododendron. Attract attention and outstanding tombstones. Another famous Parisian Cemetery - Montparnasse - was built on the site of several farms in 1824 as a response to the ban on placing cemeteries in central Paris, was released in early XIX century. Here are buried Parisian intellectuals and bohemians - such as Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Staglieno cemetery in Genoa - a real open air museum, as the local grave is decorated with outstanding sculptures. Among those buried here - the politician Giuseppe Mazzini, the pop singer Fabrizio De Andre. This cemetery is imprinted on the album cover Love Will Tear Us Apart group Joy Division. Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague was founded in the area of ??Josefov in the XV century. This is the oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe. Since it could not go beyond the ghetto, there are 12 levels of burial - one of the grave over the other. At the cemetery buried Rabbi Leo, who according to legend, created the Golem. The Protestant cemetery in Rome - an oasis of calm and quiet. Buried here, in particular, John Keats. Epitaph on his tomb reads: "In this tomb lies the mortal body of a young English poet, who was lying on his deathbed, wished that on his tombstone was written: Here lies one whose name was written on water".