Atlas Obscura
Great Cemetery in Riga, Latvia
Established in 1773 in a location that was at the time outside Riga’s city limits, the multidenominational Great Cemetery (Lielie kapi) was once the city’s most prestigious burial ground. Members of the aristocracy, political leaders, religious leaders, business leaders, performers, artists, architects, and even a Nobel Prize laureate were buried in the cemetery. Wealthy people funded the const…
Prestigious burial ground with churches