Europe’s Biggest Cemetery Has More Than 300,000 Graves and Is One of Moldova’s Top Attractions

Posted by Jean-Yves on Feb 1, 2016
 

Saint Lazarus cemetery, also called ‘Doina’, is located in Chisinau, the capital of the Eastern Europe’s Republic of Moldova.

Founded in 1966, the cemetery occupies a surface of 2 million square metres and has more than 300,000 grave sites, including about 600 family vaults. Some of the graves are of deceased persons whose bodies have been moved to the cemetery from other locations.

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