Catholic Cemetery Dubovac, Karlovac, Croatia-Important graves

The Mausoleum of the family
Vraniczany-Dobrinović

Catholic cemetery Dubovac was established on Novemeber 1st. 1820 and situated an old Karlovac hospital and almshouse.

Dr. Julie Rugg

Julie Rugg
Dr. Julie Rugg heads the Cemetery Research Group at the University of York (UK).
Dr Rugg specialises in cemetery history and cemetery policy in England, specifically within the UK, and across Europe generally. Her work has explored the cultural contexts for cemetery development, including patterns of urban development, religious political difference and the public health discourses. 

Her book Churchyard and Cemetery: Tradition and Modernity in Rural North Yorkshire (2013) explained elements of the legal history of burial in England from 1850 to the present and also charted ways in which the burial landscape changed over time.

Dr Rugg’s interest in policy encompasses aspects of cemetery management including measures to protect and conserve burial landscapes. She sits on the Ministry of Justice Burial and Cremation Advisory Board and the Ethics Committee of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Each year in May she hosts an international cemetery colloquium at the University of York.

More on the website: http://www.york.ac.uk/chp/crg/


Dr. Francisco Javier Rodríguez Barberán

Francisco Javier Rodríguez Barberán
Javier Rodríguez Barberán is a Historian of Art and an Assistant Professor in the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (School of Architecture) at the Universidad de Sevilla (University of Seville, Spain).
From the early 90s, his research area has been the cultural and heritage dimension of cemeteries, paying special attention to the development of funerary art and architecture in XIXth and XXth centuries. In 1991 he was the director of the I Encuentro Internacional sobre los Cementerios Contemporaneous.

The conference publication, Una Arquitectura para la Muerte – 1st International Encounter on Contemporary Cemeteries: An Architecture for Death, is a key reference for the studies on this subject. 

Curator of several exhibitions, he has been the author of books and articles such as Cementerios de Andalucía (Cemeteries in Andalusia, 1993) or Los Cementerios en la Sevilla Contemporánea: Análisis Histórico y Artístico 1800-1950 (Cemeteries in Modern Seville: historical and artistic dimensions 1800-1950, 1996).

Guided tour in the Cemetery of Messina (Italy)

Monumental Cemetery of Messina (Italy)
On Sunday, 28th December 2014, a guided tour took place inside the Monumental Cemetery of Messina under the title “Qui dove è quasi distrutta la storia, resta la poesia”.