Cities of the Dead

The world's most beautiful cemeteries

AvYolanda Zappaterra

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Engelska, 2022

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-06
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780711265790
Förlag:Quarto Publishing PLC

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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.

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Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, USAHollywood Forever, Los Angeles, California, USABonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, USAMount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, USATerlingua Cemetery, Texas, USAArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USAMount Hope, Rochester, New York, USALafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, Louisiana, USAValley of the Temples, Kaneohe, Oʻahu, Hawaii, USACementerio Municipal Sara Braun, Punta Arenas, ChileRecoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaCemitério São Joao Batista, Botofaga, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilPisagua Viejo Cementério, Tarapacá region, ChileCementério Municipal Jose María Azaél Franco Guerrero, Tulcán, Carchi province, EcuadorCementerio Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis, San Juan, Puerto RicoMount Pleasant, Toronto, CanadaHighgate Cemetery, London, EnglandAbney Park Cemetery, London, EnglandSt Mary's Church Graveyard, Whitby, Yorkshire, EnglandRèilig Odhrain, Iona, Scottish Hebrides, ScotlandGlasgow Necropolis, Glasgow, ScotlandArnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol, EnglandGlendalough Graveyard, Co. Wicklow, IrelandIsola di San Michele, Venice, ItalyPere Lachaise, Paris, FranceMerry Cemetery (Cimitirul Vesel), Săpânța, RomaniaSkogskyrkogarden Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm, SwedenGubbio Cemetery Mount Ingino, Umbria, ItalySighisoara German Church on the Hill and Cemetery, RomaniaOkopowa Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw, PolandMontjuïc Cemetery, Barcelona, SpainOld Jewish Cemetery of Prague, CzechoslovakiaKerepesi Cemetery, Budapest, HungaryCimitero Acattolico (Protestant Cemetery), Rome, ItalyKensal Green Cemetery, London, EnglandBrompton Cemetery, London, EnglandZentralfriedhof, Simmering, ViennaDouaumont Ossuary/Verdun Memorial, Verdun, FranceGran Camposanto, Messina, ItalyCemitério do Alto de São João, Lisbon, PortugalCity of the Dead, Dargavs, Caucasus Mountains, RussiaWaverley Cemetery, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaAoyama Cemetery, Tokyo, JapanSouth Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, IndiaMount of Olives, Jerusalem, IsraelOkunoin Cemetery, Mount Koya, JapanMaqbaratol Shoara, Tabriz, IranNovodevichye Cemetery, Moscow, RussiaFadiouth Shell Island, Joal-Fadiouth, Mbour, SenegalIssyk-Kul cemeteries, Kyrgyzstan