Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Père Lachaise, the first and biggest cemetery in Paris. It is among the best known cemeteries in the world.

A cemetery or a graveyard is a place, usually surrounded by a fence, where people bury dead bodies and honour the dead. Many of them have gardens and other greenery in them to symbolise life and to honour the dead.

Related pages

• Burial
• Catacomb
• Necropolis
• Mausoleum