forest cemetery

Metsakalmistu, Metsakalmistu
Estonia, Tallinn
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forest cemetery

Metsakalmistu, Metsakalmistu
Estonia, Tallinn
The Forest Cemetery or Metsakalmistu is a cemetery in the city of Tallinn, where the largest writers, artists, sculptors, architects and politicians of the republic are buried. It occupies an area of ​​48.3 hectares.

The Forest Cemetery was founded in 1933 by the city authorities in Kloostrimetsa, and the opening ceremony took place in 1939. This is a natural-looking cemetery, and the requirements for its design imply a ban on the installation of memorials and grave fences. Metsakalmistu can be considered the richest cemetery in Estonia in terms of cultural monuments.

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Traveled 9 years ago
Rating 6
The familiar attitude of Europeans to cemeteries has long been known: either a park will be laid out among the graves, or even a casino will be built among the gravestones. But, either the Estonians have a different mentality, or our common past has left an imprint on the attitude towards burials - the cemeteries here remain cemeteries. To go here, you need to tune in to the appropriate wave, because Metsakalmistu (Forest Cemetery) is still first of all a functioning cemetery, and secondly - a "tourist site".
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