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Managed by Cemetery of Lyon

Loyasse cemetery ‘s sight taken from the fortified walls

Planned by the Architect Joseph Gay. This cemetery is known as” 4 winds cemetery” (St Just cemetery former name) because of its geographic location, indeed it is placed on the elevated plateau of the Town (Fourvière area) and overhangs Lyon’s center. It is the older cemetery of Lyon, the second notable in France, well-known for its architecture and historical monuments. The most famous tombs, which is flowered all the year is Maître Anthelme Philippe’s, a famous thaumaturgy who made healings and gave cares to the Russian Imperial family. All over the cemetery we can discover mausoleums, tombs, sepulchral chapels, obelisks, funerals columns built with elegance and sumptuousness. It is the outdoor museum of funerals sculptures.
The two others important cemeteries are located on Guillotière area the “Old” founded in 1854 and the “New” built in 1857. The smallest are Croix-Rousse and St Rambert cemeteries.
Throughout these cemeteries, lay to rest many historical persons who worked for Lyon’s fame.

Points of interest

Cherub Springing hands at the top of a chapel’s dom-1866- Loyasse cemetery

Loyasse Cemetery sight

culpture in marble symbolizing the Death’s angel hanging a scythe, surrounded by other death attributes : died dove, broken column, tree roots –By the statuary Moullet 1919- Guillotière cemetery main lane

Allegory of the afterlife passage. Woman crying at the tomb’s entrance. Sculptured by the statuary Chorel- 1913. Guillotière cemetery- main lane.