In the past, I already posted a monochrome version of this image. Check it out. It’s interesting to see how much the mood changes when taking away the colors.
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Tag: cemetry
Travel Tuesday: Celtic cross
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Travel Tuesday: gravestone inlay
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Travel Tuesday: not centered
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Travel Tuesday: no roof at the house but daffodils in the garden
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Travel Tuesday: lonely cemetery
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Travel Tuesday: without a roof
Quite often we came along sometimes where the only building didn’t have a roof. It’s a quite funny experience.
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Travel Tuesday: Cementerio Cristóbal Colón, La Habana, Cuba
For today’s holiday: All Saints’ Day!
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Weekly Photo Challenge: broken
This weeks topic at “The Daily Post” for the photo challenge is “broken”.
Regardless if it is intentionally broken or not. A ruin or something after an accident. You got the picture.
I picked this old graveyard, because the single graves are broken, but also the relationships between the people in this yard and those outside. Hearts might be broken, too, from mourning.
I edited it in monochrome, to support the special mood!
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Visiting Cementerio Cristóbal Colón
Why to visit a cemetery during a vacation, I already wrote about last year. So, I don’t want to repeat it here.
On Cuba we also visited a cemetery: the cemetery of Habana. It’s really huge: 56 hectare with more than 20 kilometres of streets and more than a million funerals the biggest cemetery in whole America. According to Wikipedia you can find more than 53,000 family graves, mausoleums and chapels in the necropolis.
Even the cemetery is that big, that you usually need a map to find a certain grave, I was able to find a celebrity: the grave of Ibrahim Ferrer Planas (20.02.1927 – 06.08.2005), the voice of Buena Vista Social Club.
Here you can find a huge variety of graves and mausoleums. I was kind of surprised of the elaborated construction of the graves and the lack of poverty graves (at least, I didn’t find one). Most of them were in very good shape and rich decorated. My expectation was much different, regarding the cultural state of Cuba.
Visiting a cemetry?
Are you kidding? you might ask. No, I’m not kidding. It’s somewhat interesting and it’s definitely part of a country’s culture. How do the people handle death.
There are 3 important cemetries in the inner Paris area: Cimetière Montparnasse, Cimetière Montmatre and Cimetière Père Lachaise. You can visit them and Continue reading “Visiting a cemetry?”
Eternity Sunday
Today is Eternity Sunday. It’s the last sunday of the religious year, wich starts at the first Advent.
But now we commemorate to all the death, our ancestors. People should hold still an visit the graves.
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