Assistens Kirkegård (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Assistens Kirkegård (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Assistens Kirkegård is the final resting place of many famous people, such as Søren Kierkegaard, Hans Christian Andersen, Hinné, Kuhlau, Martin Andersen Nexø, H.C. Ørsted, etc.

About the cemetery

In 1711 a virulent epidemic caused the death of one third of the inhabitants of Copenhagen.s the city's cemeteries could not possibly cope with the resulting demand for burial plots, five new cemeteries were laid out, as a temporary solution. These were the so-called assistancekirkegårde, i.e. the "relief cemeteries". But they were very small and their capacities were soon depleted. This emergency led to proposals to establish a lager cemetery outside the city boundaries.

In 1757 the municipal authorities allocated an area of 39,000 square alen (an alen is 0.6277m) as the site of a new cemetery outside the city limits. This is the area which is today referred to as Section A of Assistens Kirkegård, which was consecrated on 6 November 1760. For its first 25 years, Assistens served as a paupers´ cemetery. It proved difficult to persuade the citizens of Copenhagen to use a cemetery that was - by contemporary standards - so far away from the city. With a view to making Assistens a more attractive choice, the authorities introduced a steep increase in charges for burial within the city limits. For the poor there was no choice; they were buried in Assistens.

In 1785, however, Assistens Kirkegård acquired a more elevated status. Assistens Kirkegård is the final resting place of many famous men and women, among them: Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher; Hans Christian Andersen, writer; Hinné, circus owner; Kuhlau, composer; Martin Andersen Nexø, writer; H.C. Ørsted, physicist. 

Address

Cemeteries Department,
The Technical and Environmental Administration,
City of Copenhagen

Kapelvej 2
2200 N Copenhagen
Denmark

Contacts

Phone: 0045 82 33 46 40
Email: stihel@tmf.kk.dk

Website:http://www.kk.dk/kirkegaarde

Photo Exhibitions in 2012

In 2012, as a part of several projects, ASCE will hold several photo exhibitions of significant cemeteries within EUCEMET project. We expect that these exhibitions will be covered by press and have a positive impact on recognition of our cemeteries and work in the public.

Any member that wishes to participate can start preparing by getting the photos of their cemetery. Most important is that:


Participation rules and details will be provided when agreed in the project. All the members are invited to participate.

The restoration of an important 16th century fresco, by Bartolomeo Cesi

The restoration of an important 16th century fresco, by Bartolomeo Cesi, located at the Certosa, the monumental cemetery of Bologna, has recently been concluded.

ASCE AGM in Friedhofskultur


Details from our AGM in Vienna this year were presented in an article in Friedhofskultur. Great work from our friends at Friedhöfe Wien.


Check out the complete article at this link.

Significant recognition for the CARISBO Foundation - The ASCE Award 2011

The article was published by the OLTRE magazine in October 2011.

Christmas Eve’s service in Vienna

An excellent opportunity to enjoy the impressive architecture and design of the art nouveau church with its dome adorned by 999 stars.

Stay updated

Latest news about the Annual General Meeting in Maribor 2012. Get it into your email box.

Updated website

As planned 2 months ago, we have made a big change to the website. One of the main problems in the past was managing the content of the website. Even though it was built on a very good open source system, editing required a lot of work. All the members were also included in a built-in Google map, but were later not added or updated.

Therefore we have decided to focus the web communications in future on:
  • Current news, updates and project information
  • Promoting main (core) projects of ASCE
  • Establishing a cemeteries database with dispersed managing
In the following weeks, each member will receive few emails with further details on how to easily arrange their photos and maps via online tools.

To make content editing faster, we will establish network of editors for countries. These editors will then be in charge of the content and events about the cemeteries in our website. Anyone can apply to be the editor for their country by emailing to secreatariat of ASCE.

Cementerio de los Ingleses (Camariñas, Spain)

La costa de Camariñas es un lugar marcado a lo largo de los años por los más de 20 naufragios que tuvieron lugar en sus aguas.

Cementeri Quart de Poblet (Quart de Poblet, Spain)

Quart de Poblet is probably founded by the Romans. The historian Euriclidión describes in his work how neighbors of Quartum helped Hannibal's army at be paralyzed by the River. 

Cementerio Municipal de Monturque (Monturque, Spain)

Cementerio municipal del municipio de Monturque, o Cementerio de San Rafael.

Cemetery of Reus (Reus, Tarragona, Spain)

Cemetery of Reus
A wonderful small cemetery in the city centre.

About the cemetery

The construction of the General Cemetery of Reus began in 1869, when the lawyer and liberal politician Josep Sardà I Cailà ceded the property as the result of the testamentary transfer. This cemetery replaced the three previous burial grounds because two of them were located in the centre of the city and the third one, named Roser Cemetery, did not have the appropriate conditions for that purpose.

Address

Cemetery of Reus
Plaça Pablo Picasso 1
43204 Reus
Spain

Contacts

Phone: +34.977750422
Fax: +34.977751242

The Parisian Cemetery of Thiais (Paris, France)

The Parisian Cemetery of Thiais (Paris, France)
The Parisian Cemetery of Thiais is one of three so called cemeteries "extra muros" located in the commune of Thiais in Paris.

Cemetery "extra muros"

As a result of various expansions, the city of Paris has integrated numerous cemeteries amongst which six are said to be “extramuros” because the proper territory of the town doesn’t include them. The cemetery of Thiais belongs to this category.

Landscape and funerary districts

Opened in 1929, Thiais shows some contrast characteristics:
  • The natural environment is rich of 6000 trees of various species. In the course of the seasons, they reinvent the landscape. 
  • The “garden of brotherhood” offers a tomb to anyone who needs it. It’s a very specific district which only exists in Thiais. 
  • The confessional districts host confessional gatherings that are allowed as long as the districts are not physically defined. The grouping of obedience in Thiais remains without equal in France.

Important monumens

  • The design of the main entrance is an example of modernist architecture of the 1930’s. It comines concrete and metal. 
  • The cemetery shelters specific memorials such as the one of the dead who gave their bodies to Science or the victims of Ermenonville’s one (an airplane catastrophe).
  • There are also several famous personalities buried at Thiais such as Joseph Roth (author of the Radetzky March), Leon Sédou (Trotsky’s son) or Paul Celan (writer, said to be the “poet of the holocaust”) and others..



*Photo source: www.blog.kermorvan.fr

Address

Conservation du cimetière parisien de Thiais
Route de Fontainebleau 261
94320 Paris
France

Contacts

Tel. +33 141732730
Fax: +33 146872188

Website: Cemeteries of Paris

The Cemetery of Montparnasse (Paris, France)

The Cemetery of Montparnasse (Paris, France)
The Cemetery of Montparnasse owns a double identity - both traditional and avant-gardist.

About the cemetery

The cemetery of Montparnasse was originally known as Le Cimetière du Sud (Southern Cemetery) and it officially opened 25 July 1824. Since its opening, more than 300,000 people have been buried there. The actual space of the cemetery was formerly a huge stone heap, hence its quite ironical the name of  “Mount-Parnassus”. From these days remains a mill at the heart of the cemetery, which has no mortuary use. 

Like the other main cemeteries of the city, the Cemetery of Montparnasse could also be considered as a real garden-museum for the 19th century monuments and home to numerous historic personalities (from Aloysius Bertrand and Saint-Saëns or Huysmans).

But the cemetery also offers an exceptional concentration of artwork realisations and celebrities of the 20th century. Here lie the Surrealist authors (like Desnos), the exile writers (like Ionesco, Cioran and Beckett) and other famous artists (from Brassaï to Gainsbourg). 



*Photo source: www.wikipedia.org

Address

The Cemetery of Montparnasse
3, boulevard Edgard-Quinet
75014 Paris
France

Contacts

Tel. 00 33144108650
Tel/Fax: 00 33144108686

Website: Cemeteries of Paris

The Cemetery of Montmartre (Paris, France)

The Cemetery of Montmartre (Paris, France)
The Cemetery of Montmartre is the third largest necropolis in Paris, after the Père Lachaise Cemetery and the Montparnasse Cemetery.

About the cemetery

The funeral vocation of the area was born during the French Revolution, when this former plaster pit has been used for the burial of the executed royal guards. Finally, the place was officially opened as the “North Cemetery” in 1825. Though smaller, the cemetery evokes the Pere-Lachaise, for numerous reasons:
  • The hilly site and its sinuous ways create a Romantic atmosphere.
  • The cemetery appears like a natural reserve with its 750 trees at the heart of a hectic district.
  • Most of all, the cemetery offers an artistic and cultural heritage worthy of the Père-Lachaise.
The recumbent statue of Cavaignac (by Rude) and the surprising monument of Osiris (with a copy of Michelange’s Moses) evoke the artistic richness of the place whereas the graves of the Montmartre artists (such as Zola, Degas, Berlioz) highlight its historic importance.

In conclusion, the Cemetery of Montmartre is as rich and poetical as the Père-Lachaise, but less crowded, calmer and suitable for understanding the history of the neighbourhood and the city.




*Photo source: www.wikipedia.org

Address

The Cemetery of Montmartre
Avenue Rachel 20
75018 Paris
France

Contacts

Tel. +33 153423630
Fax: +33 143875379

Website: Cemeteris of Paris

Nunhead Cemetry (London, United Kingdom)

Nunhead Cemetry (London, United Kingdom)
Nunhead Cemetery is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries in London, England.

About the cemetery

The Nunhead Cemetry is perhaps the least known, but most attractive, of the great Victorian Cemeteries of London. Consecrated in 1840, it is one of the seven great Victorian cemeteries established in a ring around the outskirts of London. It contains examples of the magnificent monuments erected in memory of the most eminent citizens of the day, which contrast sharply with the small, simple headstones marking common, or public, burials. It's formal avenue of towering limes and the Gothic gloom of the original Victorian planting gives way to paths which recall the country lanes of a bygone era.


*Text source: www.fonc.org.uk

Contacts

Nunhead Cemetery
Linden Gr, London SE15 3LW
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 20 7639 3121
Website: www.fonc.org.uk

Abney Cemetery (London, United Kingdom)

Abney Cemetery (London, United Kingdom)
The park originated in the eighteenth century when the land was laid out by Lady Mary Abney.

History

For many years, this land was home to Dr Isaac Watts, the "father of hymnology", whose "Busy Little Bee" and "O God our help in ages past" are well known today.

By the early nineteenth century, the grounds were used, in part, by a novel Quaker school for girls founded by William Allen and Grizelle Birkbeck.

However its most well-know land-use dates from 1840, when a unique non-denominational garden cemetery was laid out with a remarkable A to Z arboretum, and a small Wesleyan training college. Its centre-piece, the Abney Park Chapel, was deigned to be a landmark to religious toleration, being open to all. It formed a dramatic centre-piece, overlooking a well timbered landscape and specialist planting by Loddiges Nursery.

Cemetery trust

The original cemetery trust was sold to a commercial company in the 1880s, who ran it for almost a hundred years before it became insolvent, and closed in 1978, passing the property to the London borough of Hackney. Ideas for the restoration of the chapel as a visitor centre and for the future management of the historic park with community involvement, were developed during the 1980s. Since 1991 the park has been leased to the Abney Park Trust as a nature reserve, educational facility, and memorial park, in partnership with the freeholder, the London Borough of Hackney.

The Council remains responsible for the residual cemetery function, being a burial authority whose practices and duties towards the maintenance of the park and the relatives of those interred here, are governed by the Local Authorities Cemeteries Order 1977. However certain areas are closed altogether to burial and headstone rights acquired from the former cemetery company, including all paths.

Training centre

The Trust opened a visitor centre in the front lodge, restored the outer and inner courtyard, and upon becoming an accredited training centre added temporary classroom facilities, stone and woodcraft carving workshops, and a children’s garden. Creative and performing arts are also supported, as is a continuing memorial function. Unlike many historic parks and gardens, including some garden cemeteries from the same era, the Trust allows the public to enjoy the grounds during daylight hours free of any membership requirement or entrance charge. Opening and closing times are set by the Trust, and serviced by the Hackney Park’s Service.

The Trust has been an Accredited Training Centre for City and Guilds for over 15 years, and holds an "Approved Centre" certificate for City and Guilds and the National Proficiency Test Council. In recent years the Trust has been granted accreditation to offer various training courses for NPTC and the Awarding Body Consortium in horticulture, conservation, woodwork, Skills for Working Life, and a level 2 diploma in work-based environmental conservation. Most recently the Trust has expanded its provision of practical skill workshops to offer non-certificated drop-in courses open to all for stone carving and woodcraft, funded by Natural England and the Big Lottery.




*Photo source: www.wikipedia.org

Address

Abney Park Trust
South Lodge, Abney Park
Stoke Newington High Street
London N16 0LH
United Kingdom

Contacts

Tel: 0044 207 275 7557
Email: abney-park@geo2.poptel.org.uk

Website: www.abneypark.org

The Northern Cemetery (Solna, Sweden)

The Northern Cemetery (Solna, Sweden)
Norra Begravningsplatsen, literally "The Northern Cemetery" is a major cemetery of Metropolitan Stockholm, located in the municipality of Solna.

About the cemetery

The Northern Cemetery in Solna, was built in 1815 in an area belonging to Karlberg’s royal estate which was deeded a general burial place for Stockholm residents. It opened on June 9th, 1827 and the burial site was expanded and adapted several times after the city’s growing needs, especially in the 1860s and 1870s. The oldest, southeast, part was planned by the architect Carl Gustaf Blom-Carlsson after French-class pattern with a semi-circular place and lime-tree lined avenues.

At the Northern Cemetery there are two chapels for funeral ceremonies, Norra kapellet and Stora Gravkoret. Immediately next to the Northern Cemetery was a provisional crematorium built in 1887 as the first crematorium in Scandinavia. In 1909 it was replaced when a new crematorium was put into service. The new crematorium was then taken out of service in 1989, after 80 years of operation.

Within the Northern Cemetery there are a large number of beautiful and magnificent grave arrangements that range from smaller headstones to great mausoleums, many of which are located in the hill called “Lindhagens kulle”. 

Famous architects such as Gustaf Lindgren, Gunnar Asplund, Sigurd Lewerentz and Lars Israel Wahlman together developed the Northern Cemetery to be one of the country’s most impressive and rich burial places. There are many sculptures, relics and other artistic ornaments created by some of Sweden’s most outstanding sculptors, such as Carl Eldh and Carl Milles.

Architect Jan Wahlman has designed the garden of remembrance, which was opened in 1987. At the memorial and meditation site is a sculpture group by Anita Bruzewizt-Hansson called Music in the branches.

At the cemetery you can find a burial area especially for infants and children. One special aspect of the area is the playful atmosphere through the wooden climbing sculptures. These sculptures are carved and made out of elderly elm trees that had once grown at the cemetery.

Important personalities at the cemetery

Many prominent Swedes are buried at the Northern Cemetery, for example:
  • Alfred Nobel (inventor and industrialist),
  • August Strindberg (author),
  • Ingrid Bergman (actress),
  • Ragnar Östberg (architect and artist),
  • Ferdinand Boberg (architect and designer),
  • Per Albin Hansson (former prime minister),
  • Salomon August Andrée (initiator and leader of the Andrée-expedition) to name just a few.



Address

Norra Begravningsplatsen
Solna Kyrkväg, Grind 3
171 64 Solna
Sweden

Contacts

Telefon: 08-508 301 00
Fax: 08-508 300 80

Schoonselhof Cemetery (Antwerp, Belgium)

Schoonselhof Cemetery (Antwerp, Belgium)
The Schoonselhof cemetery is situated near Antwerp in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium.

About the cemetery

In 1911 the city of Antwerp bought the 84 hectare big estate with a castle, to use it as a park cemetery, following the example of Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg. To drain the swampy grounds, they bordered the various parks with dug out ditches. On August 8th, 1914, military parks of honour were created. The first person to be buried at the Schoonselhof Cemetery was a German soldier (in August 29th, 1914). Since September 1st, 1921, the Schoonselhof Cemetery is a public cemetery. Here we find a lot of monuments that were transferred in 1938 from the old Kiel cemetery, after its closure in 1936. 

Important personalities

A small, almost unnoticeable grave is that of Maria S’ Heeren. In August 15th, 1902, during the tour of the procession of light, the last carriage of splendour, belonging to the Leopold company, and on which the girl was tied up, suddenly caught fire. Maria, who portrayed the snow queen, was burned alive. She became the symbol of innocence and was buried as a martyr by thousands of Antwerp citizens.

In the middle of the concrete road stands the angel monument created by the sculptor Arthur Pierre. It is the last resting place of Peter Benoit. He taught his people how to sing and is the founder of the Flemish music school, in 1867.

We can visit the last resting place of other composers (such as Jan Blockx and Armand Preud’homme),  painters (such as Hendrik De Braekeleer, Karel Verlat and Theodoor Verstraete), sculptors (Such as Vic Gentils and Albert Szukalski) and writers (such as Gerard Walschap, Paul Van Ostaijen, Willem Elsschot, Marnix Gijsen, Hubert Lampo, Herman De Coninck and Hendrik Conscience, writer of “De Leeuw van Vlaanderen” (The lion of Flanders)). A colossal lion guards his grave.

In the Schoonselhof cemetery are a lot of monuments for freemasons with a monumental tomb for Isidore Eyerman. The largest monumental memorial of the entire Schoonselhof is the statue of mayor Leopold De Wael. Plastic arts artist and musician Ferre Grignard also lie here. He had a world hit in 1966 with the song “Ring, ring, I’ve got to sing”.

The castle and special burial grounds

There is a Israelian burial place at the Schoonselhof Cemetery which is dominated by the Tolkowskymausoleum in neo-moor architecture, erected in 1913. On our way to the military burial grounds we cannot ignore the castle, built in classical French style. There is also the British soldiers cemetery with a quiet chapel. Further on we find the graves of the victims of the world wars of 1940-1945 and 1914-1918. Here rest only the soldiers of the allied armies. The German soldiers were transferred to Vladslo (1914-1918) and to Lommel (1940-1945).




*Photo source: www.en.wikipedia.org

Address

Schoonselhof Cemetery
Krijgsbaan: Sint Bernardsesteenweg
2660 Antwerp
Belgium

Contacts

Tel. +32 3 740 36
Email: centrale.schoonselhof@stad.antwerpen.be
Website: www.schoonselhof.be

Tourist information

Phone: +32 3 232 01 03
Address: Grote Markt, Antwerp
Email: toerisme@antwerpen.be
Website: www.antwerpen.be

Cemetery of Laeken (Brussels, Belgium)

Cemetery of Laeken (Brussels, Belgium)
The Cemetery of Laeken is the oldest of all the cemeteries in Brussels still in function.

About the cemetery

The Cemetery of Laeken covers 6.200 m² were you can find around 10.000 graves. The cemetery and its old church are painted as early as the XIIIth century.

When the first queen of the Belgians passed away she made the wish to be buried in Laeken / Laken where the royal family lived in the neighborhood. This royal funeral stimulated the growth of the cemetery where all nobility, “bourgeoisie” and notorious people of the country wanted to be buried. These wealthy families made build several impressive chapels and grave monuments with marble, golden letter, bronze decoration and sculptures. This generating to the place the nickname of “Père Lachaise of Brussels” where it is e.g. possible to find an original sculpture “The Thinker” of Rodin on a grave.

After some extension of the superficies the city council voted the construction of underground galeries which are unique in Brussels. This in order to have more capacity for burying and keeping in mind the hygienist concern of the XIXth century.

Nowadays the cemetery is still in use as such and also visited by many people in order to admire some impressive monuments and the graves of notorious people.

Cemetery address

Cemetery of Laeken
O.L. - Vrouwvoorplein 16,
1020 Brussels,
Belgium

Cemetery contacts

Phone: +32 2 478 04 43
Email: cimetieres@brucity.be
Email: begraafplaatsen@brucity.be

Facebook: CimetieresBXLBegraafplaatsen

Managing organization and contacts

City of Brussels, owner

Mr Ahmed EL KTIBI, alderman
Rue des Halles 4 Hallenstraat
1000 Bruxelles – Brussel
Belgium

Mr Kambaza NKUBIRI, general director
Rue des Halles 4 Hallenstraat
1000 Bruxelles – Brussel
Belgium

Location

The Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery (Stahnsdorf, Germany)

The Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery (Stahnsdorf, Germany)
On March 28, 1909 the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery officially opened.

About the cemetery

Given its size and the vast park/forest-like layout, the South-Western Cemetery developed into one of the largest and best known burial sites in Germany already a few decades later. Several personalities found their final resting place here, such as Heinrich Zille, Rudolf Breitscheid, Lovis Corinth, Edmund Rumpler, Louis Ullstein, and the Siemens family. The overall impression is definitely influenced by the combination of garden and cemetery art, architecture and sculptures.

Architects and artists such as Franz Seeck, Alfred Grenander, Max Taut, Hugo Lederer, Hermann Hosaeus and Emil Cauer worked here, to mention just a few. Apart from 19th and 20th century tombstone art, the mourning chapel in the style of the Norwegian Stave churches is the core of the South-Western Cemetery. Gustav Werner, royal building surveyor, found his inspiration in Scandinavia and between 1908 and 1911 implemented the chapel building plans. The cemetery achieved thus fame and popularity as a cultural monument, far beyond the boundaries of Berlin.

Guided tours and concerts

We offer guiding tours to the famous dead people for visitors. Who would spontaneously like to come, can borrow a digital modern Audio Guide in the info house with German and English language. On the weekends classical concerts take place in the Norwegian wooden church.




*Photo Source: www.wikimedia.org

Address

Bahnhofstrasse, D-14532 Stahnsdorf
D-14532 Berlin
Germany

Contacts

Phone: +49(0)332962315
Fax: +49(0)3329614107
Email: info@suedwestkirchhof.de

Opening hours

April – November: 7.00 – 20.00
December – March: 8.00 – 17.00

Tourist Information Office in Potsdam

Potsdam Tourismus Service
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam

Phone: +49(0)331275580
Fax: +49(0)3312755879

Website

Tourist Information Centers in Berlin

Europa-Center Budapester Strasse
Daily opening: 10.00 - 19.00

Brandenburger Tor
Daily opening: 10.00 - 18.00

Fernsehturm
Daily opening: 10.00 - 19.00

Brandenburger Tor Alexanderplatz
Daily opening: 10.00 - 18.00

Hotline: +49(0)30 250025

Website

Bornstedt Cemetery (Potsdam, Germany)

Bornstedt Cemterey (Potsdam, Germany)
This romantic garden cemetery, which includes over 500 historic graves, is like an open book of Prussian history.

About the cemetery

Theodor Fontane introduced what is probably the most famous Potsdam cemetery with the remark that, "What dies in Sanssouci will be buried in Bornstedt." He was alluding to the numerous generals, army officers, chamberlains, valets, Privy Councillors, court doctors, and royal master-builders, "however, above all, court gardeners arrayed by the battalion."

Imprtant personalities

The cemetery is distinguished not only by the grave of Heinrich Wilhelm Wagenführer (the only member of the famous tall fellow grenadiers of the life guards battalion of the Soldier King to be laid to final rest here), but also the graves of Kurt von Plettenberg (the only participant in the ill-fated July 20, 1944 plot to overthrow Hitler who was to receive a regular funeral) and Ludwig Justi (the director of the National Gallery in Berlin for many years). In the private graveyard of the Sello family for example, the famous landscape gardener Peter Joseph Lenné and the architects Friedrich Ludwig Persius and Ferdinand von Arnim were buried.

The church

The church, with its detached campanile, was built in 1842-43 in an Italianesque style according to the wishes of King Frederick Wilhelm IV and by the plans of Friedrich Ludwig Persius. Friedrich August Stüler was incharge with the further design and realization of the building. Reinhold Persius completed the work in 1881-82 and gave the Bornstedt church its final form, which it still retains. The unusual memorial slab of Jacob Paul von Gundling can be seen within the building, as well as some other noteworthy exhibits.



*Text source: www.potsdam.de

Contacts

Bornstedt Cemetery
Ribbeckstraße
Potsdam-Bornstedt

Phone: +49 (0)331 52 05 68
Website: www.bornstedter-friedhof.de/

Opening hours

Every day throughout the year.
Entrance is free.

Skogskyrkogården (Stockholm, Sweden)

The Woodland Cemetery
The unique merge of nature and architecture into a seamless whole. That is Skogskyrkogården - The Woodland Cemetery.
When Skogskyrkogården was founded at the beginning of the 1900s, the aim was to create something special, something original - a cemetery blending nature and architecture into a seamless whole. Today, Skogskyrkogården is considered one of the most important creations of modern architecture, and is even inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.



Skogskyrkogården's history begins at the beginning of the 1900s, when it became apparent that Stockholm's cemeteries were insufficient and needed complementing. Stockholm City Council decided to build a new cemetery south of the existing Southern Cemetery, in modern-day Enskede.

At the time, cemeteries were generally considered "Gardens of the Dead", with grandiose parks, tree-lined avenues and impressive headstones raising a kind of memento to the dead. The city's cemetery committee had a desire to move away from this ideal and to instead create a cemetery centred on the underlying landscape. 

Photos of the cemetery by Susanne Hallmann:

The Stockholm City Museum Phone

+46 8 508 31 620

Booking service

+46 8 508 31 620
bokning.stadsmuseum@stockholm.se

Visitors Center

+46 8 508 31 730
visitorscenter.skogskyrkogarden@kyf.stockholm.se

Ekshärad Cemetery (Ekshärad, Sweden)

Ekshärad Cemetery (Ekshärad, Sweden)
Ekshärad Cemetery is well known for its graceful and imaginative iron crosses.

About the cemetery

There is a unique heritage preserved at the Ekshärad Cemetery. Over 450 forged iron crosses, most of them from the 1700s and 1800s, are preserved. 

Iron crosses were frequently used in the cemeteries in Värmland until the 1900s, but they were not functional and became outdated so they started to disappear. People started to throw them away or sell them. This happend in Ekshärad Cemetery as well, and for many years their home was on the outside of the cemetery. Luckely, they choose to put the iron crosses back in the 1920s.




*Photo source: www.mapio.net

Contacts

Swedish federation of Cemeteries and Crematoria
Sveavagen 116
10432 Stockholm
Sweden

e-mail: kansli@ignis.se
Tel: +46 81 50540
Fax: +46 86 128036

Tourist information

Tourist Information about Sweden House
P.O. Box 7542 SE-103 93
Stockholm
Sweden

Tel: +46 8 789 24 00
Fax: +46 8 789 24 50

The Eastern Cemetery in Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)

The Eastern Cemetery in Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)
The Eastern Cemetery in Gothenburg was designed by architect J. H. Strömberg and was inaugurated on November 16, 1860.

About the cemetery

The Eastern Cemetery in Gothenburg is located in the parish of Örgryte, in the Diocese of Gothenburg. With an area of 25,3 hectares, and nearly 18.000 graves, it is the third largest graveyard in the city. Including the urns, it is estimated to be the resting place of 150.000 people

Special attention must be paid to the hill on the west side, with its magnificent mausoleums, most of which commemorate notable Gothenburg citizens, whose work and donations helped shape the city. Many of their tombstones and monuments are true works of art.

A Jewish burial site is located at the southern end of the cemetery.

History

The cemetery was designed by the architect J. H. Strömberg and inaugurated on 16 November 1860 by dean Peter Wieselgren under the name Begravningsplatsen ("The Burial Place"). The first burial took place on 27 February 1861. During the first year of operation, 348 adults and 648 children were buried there, as measles and diphtheria were raging in the city.

The crematory in Gothenburg    

In 1890, the first crematory in Gothenburg was opened, designed by Swedish architect Hans Hedlund. It burned down on 23 December 1920, but was later rebuilt. However, it was closed in 1951, and its functions were taken over by the crematory in the nearby district of Kviberg.



*Text source: www.wikipedia.org

Cemetery address

Swedish federation of Cemeteries and Crematoria
Sveavagen 116
10432 Stockholm
Sweden

Cemetery contacts

Phone: +46 81 50540
Fax: +46 86 128036
E-mail: kansli@ignis.se

Tourist Information about Sweden House

P.O. Box 7542 SE-103 93
Stockholm
Sweden

Phone: +46 8 789 24 00
Fax: +46 8 789 24 50

Malmö Eastern Cemetery (Malmö, Sweden)

Malmö Eastern Cemetery (Malmö, Sweden)
The Eastern Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Malmö. Both landscape and buildings were designed by the renowned architect Sigurd Lewerentz.

About the cemetery

The Malmö Eastern cemetery was inaugurated in 1921. The architect Sigurd Lewerentz dedicated a large part of his life to the Eastern Cemetery, creating a prime example of Swedish architecture and its development over time.

The ridge, Hohögsåsen, divides the cemetery into two architectural styles. South of the ridge, the architecture is strictly regular with cut hedges and form trees, while the terrain north of the ridge has invited a design with more free-growing plants and continuous lawns. 

While strolling through the cemetery you will notice the chapel, the crematory, the bell tower and the lush landscape itself,  all designed by Lewerentz. However, his most famous work in the cemetery is probably the flower kiosk -  a simple concrete house where the windows are attached with black sealant that attracts. It was completed in 1965, and was Lewerentz’s last work before he passed away in 1975.




Contacts

Swedish federation of Cemeteries and Crematoria
Sveavagen 116
10432 Stockholm
Sweden

E-mail: kansli@ignis.se
Tel: +46 81 50540
Fax: +46 86 128036

Tourist information

Tourist Information about Sweden House
P.O. Box 7542 SE-103 93
Stockholm
Sweden

Tel: +46 8 789 24 00
Fax: +46 8 789 24 50

Östra Cemetery (Jönköping, Sweden)

Östra Cemetery  (Jönköping, Sweden)
Östra Cemetery, also known as the Eastern Cemetery, is located in the city of Jönköping in southern Sweden and it originates from the 17th century.

About the cemetery

The first mention of the Östra cemetery dates back to 1636. It has been expanded two times - in the 1920s and 1970s. Since the city and the railway have grown up alongside the cemetery, it has taken on a very elongated and irregular shape.

The cemetery provides a good deal of historical information thanks to its wonderful old gravestones and iron railings. The chapel was built in the 1930s and is similar to the old wooden chapel which was previously destroyed in a fire. Next to the chapel there is a 400-year-old oak tree and the landscape is punctuated by avenues lined with elm and lime trees. The cemetery also features some renowned rockeries.



*Photo and text source: www.svenskakyrkan.se

Contacts

Swedish federation of Cemeteries and Crematoria
Sveavagen 116
10432 Stockholm
Sweden

e-mail: kansli@ignis.se
Tel: +46 81 50540
Fax: +46 86 128036

Tourist Information

Tourist Information about Sweden Hous
P.O. Box 7542 SE-103 93
Stockholm
Sweden

Tel: +46 8 789 24 00
Fax: +46 8 789 24 50

Mjösund cemetery (Njurunda, Sweden)

Mjösund cemetery (Njurunda, Sweden)
Mjösund cemetery in Njurunda, Sundsvall, has become a tourist attraction thanks to its beautiful location and exotic flora.

About the cemetery

Mjösund cemetery is a cemetery in Njurunda (in the Sundsvall municipality in Sweden), managed by Njurunda parish. The burial site was opened the 1940s and expanded in 1960 and 1973. Mjösund's burial chapel is located at the burial site

Today, the cemetery represents an interesting tourist attraction thanks to its beautiful location and exotic flora.

Cemetery address

Mjösund cemetery
Mjösundsvägen 13
862 40 Njurunda,
Sweden

Swedish federation of Cemeteries and Crematoria

Address
Sveavagen 116
10432 Stockholm
Sweden

Contacts
Email: kansli@ignis.se
Phone: +46 81 50540
Fax: +46 86 128036

Tourist Information about Sweden House

Address
P.O. Box 7542 SE-103 93
Stockholm
Sweden

Contacts
Phone: +46 8 789 24 00
Fax: +46 8 789 24 50





*Main photo source: www.wikipedia.org

Strandkyrkogården (Stockholm, Sweden)

Strandkyrkogården (Stockholm, Sweden)
Strandkyrkogården, also know as the Shore Cemetery, was inaugurated in 1996. It is located six miles south-east of the Stockholm city centre, next to the lake Drevviken.

About the cemetery

Planning for Strandkyrkogården began in the first years of the 1980s and the facility was inaugurated on 20 September 1996. No chapel buildings were erected because Strandkyrkogården was considered complementary to Skogskyrkogården in Gamla Enskede.

The cemetery covers 25 hectares of land that alternates between open parkland and closed forest areas with the burial sites. In total, there is room for around 20.000 graves. The entrance is located by Gudöbroleden and is decorated with granite blocks from Göinge. Next to the cemetery 's memorial grove , there is a viewpoint with a view of lake Drevviken.





Text and photo source: www.wikipedia.org

Swedish federation of Cemeteries and Crematoria

Address
Sveavagen 116
10432 Stockholm
Sweden

Contacts
Email: kansli@ignis.se
Phone: +46 81 50540
Fax: +46 86 128036

Tourist Information about Sweden House

Address
P.O. Box 7542 SE-103 93
Stockholm
Sweden

Contacts
Phone: +46 8 789 24 00
Fax: +46 8 789 24 50

Monumental Cemetery Mirogoj (Zagreb, Croatia)

Monumental Cemetery Mirogoj (Zagreb, Croatia)
The Monumental Cemetery Mirogoj was founded in 1876 on the property of Ljudevit Gaj, leader of the Croatian national revival.

About the cemetery

The new cemetery substituted eight cemeteries active at that time. It was projected by Herman Bollé (1845-1926), a Friedrich von Schmidt's student.

Herman Bollé had a French origin and descended from a family of German architects. He lived in Croatia for half a century and with his works had a big impact in Zagreb (especially with the reconstruction of the Cathedral) and in the whole country. In 1879 started in Mirogoj the construction of the magnificent arcades, with cupolas, central portals and the church.

The arcades were finished in 1917 while the central part in 1929. The Neo-Renaissance style of the cemetery is characterized by symmetry, balance, clear perspectives, a right division of lights and shadows and almost modern expression.

According with the first statute all confessions were equal, so catholic and orthodox crosses and jewish stars equally form the cupolas’ sky-line. Mirogoj can therefore be considered a very significant cemetery as a landscape realisation, as an art gallery and as a book of Croatian history.



Address

Trgovačko društvo Gradska groblja d.o.o.
Mirogoj 10
10000 Zagreb
Croatia

Contacts

Phone: +385 1 4581222
Fax: +385 1 4581088
Email: info@gradskagroblja.hr

Website: www.gradskagroblja.hr

Office hours:

Monday: 7.30 - 16.00
Tuesday - Thursday: 7.30 - 15.30
Friday: 7.30 - 15.00
Saturday: 7.30 - 18.00

Cemetery opening hours:

1. April - 30. September: 6.00 - 20.00
1. October - 31. March: 7.30 - 18.00

Bus to reach the cemetery

Bus nr. 106 (Kaptol – Mirogoj – Krematorij) from the bus terminal near the Cathedral

Tourist information Center (TIC)

Jelačić’s Square 11
Phone: +385 1 4814051
+385 1 4814052
+385 1 4814054
Fax: +385 1 4814056

N. Šubić Zrinjski Square 14
Phone: +385 1 4921645
Fax: +385 1 4921647
Email: info@zagreb-touristinfo.hr

Varaždin Cemetery (Varaždin, Croatia)

Varaždin Cemetery (Varaždin, Croatia)
An outstanding example of landscape architecture and natural monuments.

About the cemetery

Unlike other cemeteries, Varaždin’s was devised by a visionary soul called Herman Haller. Haller, who not only designed a resting place of the dead, but an outstanding example of landscape architecture and natural monuments. It is an ideal, restful place for visitors due to the botanic composition of birch, flowers, grass and tall cypress trees, which enable the delicate play of light and shadow.

Varaždin cemetery was established in 1773, and in 1905, Herman Haller began to arrange about 7.000 plants - cypress, maple, ash, red beech, boxes, magnolia and birch. Clipping Thuja in geometrical bodies made the cemetery more similar to the French fleet. One of the most valuable monuments in the Varaždin cemetery is the "Angel of Death", the work of Sculptor Robert Frangeš Mihanović, which symbolically shows the farewell of the living with the dead. Among other attractions, visitors should see the monument of Vatroslav Jagić, decorated with fresh flowers daily.



*Photo and text source: www.tourism-varazdin.hr

Contacts

Varaždin Cemetery
Hallerova aleja 8
42000 Varaždin
Croatia

Tel. +385(0)42332777
Fax: +385(0)42332787
Email: info@parkovi.com

Website: www.parkovi.com

Opening hours

December to February: 7.00 - 19.00
March, April and October: 7.00 - 20.00.
May to September: 7.00 - 21.00

Historic Cemeteries in Gent (Gent, Belgium)

The Western Cemetery  (Gent, Belgium)
Gent, a city of 230.000 inhabitants, has 18 cemeteries on a total surface of 570.000 m², and two of them are beautiful historic 19th century cemeteries.  

The Western Cemetery

The Western Cemetery is a landscaped garden inaugurated in 1873.

It was the first neutral cemetery in Ghent that offered a resting place to all convictions with a complete freedom of choice of the personal tombstone. This results in a big individual diversity integrated in one garden.

Especially in the romantic 19th century people visited this cemetery for a Sunday-stroll and enjoyed the splendour of the monuments and the tranquillity of nature.

More about the cemetery: www.visit.gent.be/campo-santo

The Campo Santo of Sint-Amandsberg

The Campo Santo of Sint-Amandsberg is a 19th century cemetery located on a hill, which is special because of the lowland landscape.

This cemetery dates from 1847 and is a very important burial place for Flemish writers, artists and local nobility

It was inspired by Père Lachaise, the largest cemetery in Paris, and now has more than 131 protected tombs.

More about the cemetery: www.visit.gent.be/western-cemetery

Address

Palinghuizen 143
B-9000 Gent
Belgium

Contacts

Phone: +32 0(9) 266 52 32
Email: begraafplaatsen@gent.be
Website: www.gent.be

Tourist information

Address: Botermarkt 17A
Phone: +32 0(9) 266 52 32
Email: toerisme@gent.be
Website: www.gent.be



*Photo source: www.gent.be

The Vienna Central Cemetery (Vienna, Austria)

The Vienna Central Cemetery (Vienna, Austria)
The Vienna Central Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in the world by the number of buried.

About the cemetery

It was built in the late XIX century according to the plans of the Frankfurt landscape architects Karl Jonas Mylius and Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli who were awarded for their project "per angusta ad augusta" (from dire to sublime). The layout was designed for a multi-confessional graveyard. A church dedicated to St. Charles Borromeo was then built as designed by Max Hegele, and it opened in 1911.

Important personalities at the cemetery

Vienna is a city of music and the municipality expressed gratitude to composers by granting them monumental tombs. To mention a few: Antonio Salieri, Johann Strauss the older, Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss the younger, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Arnold Schoenberg, etc.

Vienna is also a city of architects (Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffmann are buried here), writers (such as Karl Kraus), politicians (like Julius Raab, who as chancellor signed the state treaty in 1955 and his popular predecessor Leopold Figl who was later to become the Austrian minister of foreign affairs), Bruno Kreisky (the Sun King), Viktor Adler, Otto Bauer,... All of them, and many more, have been laid to rest in graves of honour at the Vienna Central Cemetery.

Address

Wiener Zentralfriedhof
Simmeringer Hauptstrasse 234
1110 Vienna Austria

Contacts

Phone: +43 (0)1 760410
Email: post@friedhoefewien.at
Website: www.friedhoefewien.at

Municipal Cemetery of Ciriego (Santander, Spain)

Municipal Cemetery of Ciriego (Santander, Spain)
The Municipal Cemetery of Ciriego was projected in 1882 by the municipal architect Casimiro Pérez de la Riva to replace the old Necropolis of San Fernando.

About the cemetery

Ciriego developed an articulate space in the central part. It contains a framework of streets that organize the burial space in blocks, in whose interior the land for each proprietor is delimited. 

Casimiro Pérez de la Riva (1851-1934), arrives in Santander after studying at the Architecture School and winning the third medal in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts to occupy the posotion of municipal architect of the city. One of his first works will be this cemetery. In his "Memory about the construction of a new cemetery in Santader", he puts forward the union of the hygienic, legislative and religious principle. The most famous architects, foremen and marble workers in the region like Manuel Casuso Hoyo, Valentín Ramón Casalís, Miguel Doncel, Alfredo de la Escalera or Emilio de la Torriente will work in the graveyard. Their creations are representative of the architectonic typologiers coming from the contemporany funerary world at the moment in Spain. An ensemble that De la Riva defined like: "a marvellous museum of historic and artistic monuments" was created.

The different repairs that the cemetery has undertaken throughout the last century have been made by some of the main municipal architects in the city. Some of them previously mentioned such as Valentín Casalís in 1900; Javier G De Riancho in 1933; contractors like Manuel Ruiz Lanza in 1944 and Miguel Saiz de Cubria in 1927- that developed the access to the enclosure.

Since 1991, the cemetery management is under the Society Garden of Cantabria.

Address

Municipal Cemetery of Ciriego
San Román de la Llanilla (Ciriego)
39012 Santander Spain

Contacts

Phone: 0034942331987
Fax: 0034942321999
Email: cjc@cementeriodeciriego.com

Website: www.cementeriodeciriego.es

Polloe Cemetery (San Sebastian, Spain)

Polloe Cemetery (San Sebastian, Spain)
Polloe is the main cemetery in San Sebastian, although there are two more in the city.

About the cemetery

The first burial at Polloe Cemetery took place on August 12th 1878.

Spanish cities at the end of the 19th century transferred the concept of bourgeois urban expansion to the cemeteries in an orthogonal layout with wide avenues intersected by narrower streets, thus forming small enclosures where the graves were set out following a hierarchical order: from the family vaults and more distinguished graves, near the entrance, to the communal graves at the end of the cemetery.

Within this general layout there are some special characteristics at the Polloe Cemetery, like the cemetery for 'dissidents' or 'civilians', or the burials of non-Catholics, which had a different entrance from that of Polloe. This space had a tangential shape and was closed with the arrival of democracy. In addition, the servants' quarters, autopsy rooms and a chapel could be found in the cemetery.

This cemetery layout has been maintained up until now, with the expansion of two different sites, in 1919 and 1944, until the current 62,000 m2 of plot was reached.



*Photo source: www.wikipedia.org

Address

Polloe Cemetery
C/ Sibilia s/n
20012 San Sebastián
Spain

Contacts

Tel. +34943422129
Tel/Fax: +34943297134
Email: funeraria_municipal@donostia.org

Opening hours

From april 1st to november 1st
Monday to Saturday: from 8.00 to 19.00
Holidays: from 9.00 to 19.00

From november 2nd to march 31st
Monday to Saturday: from 8.00 to 18.00
Holidays: from 9.00 to 18.00

Office hours (in Duque de Mandas, 14)

Every day: from 7.30 to 22.30

Cemetery Nuestra Señora de la Salud (Cordoba, Spain)

The decision by the French authorities, during the Napoleonic occupation of Spanish territory, would live up to the cemetery of Our Lady of Health since the beginning of its construction in 1811, was expanded to take shape in 1833.

Municipal Cemetery of Granada (Granada, Spain)

Municipal Cemetery of Granada (Granada, Spain)
The San José Municipal Cemetery of Granada is the second oldest municipal cemetery in Spain.

About the cemetery

This cemetery is part of the landscape and historical monuments of the Alhambra and is located a short distance from the entrance to the Nazari Palaces. It is featured in the list of the city's "Assets of Cultural Interest" (Bienes de Interes Cultural) and hosts, especially in the early gardens, relevant examples of the architecture and funerary sculpture of the Romantic and subsequent periods, all catalogued, realised by local and foreign artists.

The present cemetery can be tracked back to 1787, when King Carlos III enacted the "Real Cedula" on the use of cemeteries outside city settlements. In 1991, the Town Council funded EMUCESA (Empresa Municipal de Cementerio y Servicios Funerarios de Granada S.A.) that manages the cemetery today.

In the cemetery section currently named Patio de San Cristobal, there are the only archaeological remains that have survived from the beginnings of the cemetery, such as the Alixares Arab Palace (XIII/XIV Century), the small fort and the channelling system built by the French at the beginning of the XIX century on the hills by the same name.




*Photo source: www.emucesa.es

Contacts

Municipal Cemetery of Granada
Paseo de la Sabica s/n.
18009 Granada Spain

Tel: +34 958 221 864
Fax: +34 958 220 937
Email: atencion-clientes@emucesa.es

Website: http://www.emucesa.es

Opening hours

in summer from 8.00 to 20.00
in winter from 9.00 to 18.30

Office hours

Mon.-Fri.: 8.30-19.00
Sat., Sun. and holidays: 9.00-14.00 and from 16.00-18.00

Cemetery of Montjuïc (Barcelona, Spain)

Cemetery of Montjuïc (Barcelona, Spain)
Previously known as the South-West cemetery, Montjuïc was inaugurated on March the 17th 1883, following a project by the architect Leandro Albareda.

The Montjuïc cemetery, a monument of monuments

The biggest regarding the number of graves and works of art. It holds an immense richness of funeral art which shows, in its extraordinary diversity, the different ambitions, aspirations and fears from the citizens of Barcelona as the years went by. 

Barcelona and the Cemetery of Montjuïc

At the cemetery of Montjuïc history and sacrality, what is sacred and what is profane, come together. Human conflicts and cultural values that make up the individual consciousness and and collective identity are represented, framed within the new modern sensibility. The industrial and technological society has a conflictive relationship with spiritualy and, particularly, with death and divinity.

In this delicate meeting point of history and sacrality resides the fact that the cemetery of Montjuïc is one of the symbolic spaces most important in the city.

Contacts

Cemetery of Montjuïc
C/Mare de Deu del Port, 54-58
08038 Barcelona
Spain

Tel. +34 934841920

Opening hours

Monday to Sunday: from 8:00 to 18:00

Tourist information

www.barcelonaturisme.com
www.bcn.es

Cemetery of Sant Gervasi (Barcelona, Spain)

Some historians cite the year 1853 as the inauguration date even though the official date is July the 1st of 1897.

Cemetery of Poblenou (Barcelona, Spain)

Cemetery of Poblenou (Barcelona, Spain)
One of the first cemetiris outside the city walls in Europe.

About the cemetery

Poblenou Cemetery is located in the neighbourhood of the same name in Barcelona. It is also called East Cemetery or General Cemetery. It is located in calle de Taulat, with the main entrance at Avenida Icària.

The first cemetery at this location was opened in 1775, as the state of churchyard graves inside the old city was considered insanitary. It was opened by the Bishop of Barcelona Josep Climent i Avinent as the first cemetery built outside the city's perimeter wall. After the first cemetery was destroyed by Napoleon's troops in 1813, the Italian architect Antonio Ginesi was commissioned to rebuild it, and the new site was consecrated by Bishop Pau de Sitjar i Ruata on 15 April 1819.

The cemetery consists of two sections: at the front Ginesi created egalitarian terraces of burial niches, while at the rear there is an area of individual monuments and mausolea, crafted for the aesthetic tastes and aspirations of the wealthy bourgeoisie, merchants and manufacturers of the city.



Contacts

Cemetery of Poblenou
Taulat 2
08005 Barcelona
Spain

Tel. +34 934841920
E-mail: cbsa@cbsa.es

Sant Andreu Cemetery (Barcelona, Spain)

One of the more surprising things is the disparity between the old neo-classic part and the modern one.

Arnos Vale Cemetery (Bristol, United Kingdom)

Arnos Vale Cemetery (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Arnos Vale Cemetery was established by the Bristol Cemetery Company in 1837 as a response to the overcrowded City churchyards.

About the cemetery

The amphitheatre site was landscaped, and impressive Doric Styled entrance lodges, Ionic styled Non - Conformist Chapel and Corinthian styled Anglican Chapel were constructed. All are now grade II* listed structures on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. There are also many elaborate memorials for Bristol industrial families at the cemtery, as well as for Raja Rammohan Roy. The Cemetery was extended in the 1890's and in 1929 the first crematorium in the West of England was opened beneath the Non-Conformist chapel. 

Anos Vale Cemetery Trust

Following a gradual decline and limited maintenance, the cemetery was threatened with closure and sale. The Friends of Arnos Vale Cemetery, established in 1987, worked with the City of Bristol to compulsory purchase the site which is now managed by the Anos Vale Cemetery Trust. Funding has now been received to refurbish the buildings and grounds to allow the cemetery to continue as an education, family history, and wildlife centre for the City. 

Funeral matters

The cemetery is now full and has no capacity for new burial plots. If individual family plots have capacity and are accessible, they may be used for burials of relatives. Cremated remains can be interred in family plots or spread in gardens of rest.



Contacts

Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust
West Lodge, Bath Road , Arnos Vale
BS4 3EW Bristol
United Kingdom

Phone: 44(0)1179719117
Email: info@arnosvale.co.uk

Website: http://www.arnosvale.org.uk

Opening hours

March to September
Monday to Saturday: 9.00am - 5.00pm
Sunday: 10.00am - 5.00pm

October to February
Monday to Saturday: 9.00am - 4.30pm (or at dusk if earlier)
Sunday: 10.00am - 4.30pm (or at dusk if earlier)

Tourist info

Bristol City Council
http://www.bristol.gov.uk


Tourist office 
http://www.visitbristol.co.uk