Cemeteries Around the World

If you believe everything you see in the movies, all cemeteries should be dark, eerie places accessed by rusty iron gates, filled with crumbling macabre headstones, and with a mysterious low-lying fog of uncertain origin. Ominous shapes should be lurking in the darkness, twigs should snap loudly, and no cemetery is complete without the startling flutter of bat wings.

Back in the real world, no two cemeteries are alike, and spooky is the exception rather than the rule. Many travellers, particularly those with an interest in history, art, and landscape architecture find themselves drawn to graveyards to capture the beauty of the grounds and the ancient crypts, read the inscriptions, and seek out the graves of famous historical figures, and something about cemeteries makes them almost irresistible to photgraphers.