Kerepesi Cemetery

About 500m southeast of Keleti station is the entrance to Budapest’s equivalent of Highgate or Père Lachaise cemeteries. Established in 1847, some of the 3000 gravestones and mausoleums in this 56-hectare necropolis, which is also called the National Graveyard (Nemzeti Sírkert), are worthy of a pharaoh – especially those of statesmen and national heroes such as Lajos Kossuth, Ferenc Deák and Lajos Batthyány. Other tombs are quite moving (eg those of the actress Lujza Blaha and the poet Endre Ady). Southeast of the main entrance, plot 21 contains the graves of many who died in the 1956 Uprising. Sitting uncomfortably close by is the huge mausoleum for party honchos, including the simple grave of János Kádár, who died in 1989.