Cimitirul Șerban Vodă

Burial traditions vary across the world very much, even within religions. Having a look on local cemeteries is therefore always interesting. But if you visit the biggest cemetery of București, the Cimitirul Șerban Vodă, you might get a wrong picture: until the 1970s the cemetery was reserved for ‘important’ people and is therefore seen as the national pantheon of Romania.

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The graves there are massively decorated, more than you could expect from a country with many poor people. It is impressive to discover all these beautiful mausoleums and artworks. In between you can search for a lot of Romanian celebrities like the physicist Henri Marie Coandă or poet Mihai Eminescu. The cemetery is named after the slawic ruler (voivode in Wallachia) Radu Șerban Vodă who died in 1620.

It is really a large cemetery, located close to park Tineretului. In addition to the six sections of the graveyard there is also a military section with graves from both World Wars. This includes a German section with 2,300 fallen soldiers from the first and 1,500 from the second WW. You can also visit an area for the victims of the Romanian revolution in 1989 when the Romanians ended Communism in their country.

Cimitirul Șerban Vodă
București
Romania