Cemetery

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.

Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

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

Related pages

• Burial
• Catacomb
• Necropolis
• Mausoleum