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Italian Adventure Part 2
The last full day of our trip, we drove to Pisa for the day. It is kind of a tourist trap, honestly, but like most of these towns in Italy, justifiably so. Once you get past the sketchy African guys...
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Dead People. Millions of ’em!
3.3 million at last count. All these souls are interred at Vienna’s Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof), a vast park-like space on the outskirts of the city. Visiting the cemetery had been on my bucket...
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A Break From Baroque: Karl Lueger Memorial Church
Visiting the Secession-era Karl Lueger Memorial Church at the Vienna Central Cemetery.
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Back to Baroque: Die Musiker
Visiting Beethoven, Brahms, Strauss, and Falco at Vienna's Central Cemetery.
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Tourist in My Hometown: Congressional Cemetery
I love a good cemetery. That’s why it’s a bit strange that in all the years we have lived in the DC area, I’ve never visited Congressional Cemetery. The day after Halloween, we finally made it over...
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Lynchburg: Old City Cemetery
Lynchburg’s cemetery is one of the oldest in the country. Dating from 1806, it contains the remains of over 20,000 people, the majority of whom were African American. A brochure on the black history of...
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An All-American Burying Ground
I may have mentioned that I have a thing about cemeteries. They are so nice and quiet. I love to walk around looking at the monuments, wondering about the people buried there. Columbia Gardens, near...
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Halloween at a Polish Cemetery
Halloween has not really made it to Poland yet. Which is fine with me. I mean, Halloween is OK and all, but it’s gotten kind of out of control in the USA, in my opinion, and become yet another...
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Exploring Warsaw’s Powązki Cemetery
Everything was closed on Easter Monday in Warsaw, so we set out to explore the city’s two biggest graveyards: Old Powązki Cemetery and the Okapowa Street Jewish Cemetery. It turned out that the first...
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Bergamo: Cimitero Monumentale
Today was yet another sunny day in Italy. So, I pulled up Google Maps and located the nearest large green space to our apartment in Bergamo. It turned out to be a cemetery. No problem! Nothing like a...
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