Umm, I feel kind of strange and morbid reviewing a cemetery, so I'd better make one thing clear from the start: I'm not reviewing it as a potential final resting place, or suggesting you invest in a plot here. I just think it's quite a nice place to take a walk on a sunny day, just like taking a walk in the park, except that, obviously, it's full of dead people.
In my opinion, that actually makes a walk more interesting. Just from a social history point of view, it can be fascinating to study what's written on the grave stones, and sometimes you can reconstruct family sagas stretching across multiple generations from the information contained there. Poignant and tragic events, such as the loss of a child or the first world war, can be gleaned from the terse inscriptions, while the variety of monuments, from simple plinths to elaborate phallic edifices, tell a story of social status and the ostentatious expression of wealth.
Even though this graveyard isn't particularly ancient, there's sill a lot of history contained here. Beware though - the gates are locked in the early evening, and I'm not sure that it would be much fun to get shut in and be forced to spend an evening with the ghosts and ghoulies. read more