World Cemeteries
Powązki Military Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland
Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw was founded at the beginning of the ХХth century, although there is no reliable date of its foundation. Nevertheless, in the capital, and throughout Poland, it is difficult to find a cemetery where so many great people and different religious orientations are buried. Unofficially, this cemetery has the largest collection of varieties and classification of crosses in cemetery architecture. The necropolis is located near the centre in the Northwest direction and occupies about 25 ha. The first burials belong to the participants in the uprising of the second half of the 19th century. There are zones with the graves of participants in the First World War, participants in the war with the Bolsheviks, World War II and victims of the Nazi terror. There is also a group burial here. Monument to the victims of the 2010 Smolensk plane crash. An additional incentive to visit can be a list of personalities who have found their last refuge in Powazki. The cemetery is the official burial place of honoured military figures, famous historical figures, writers, many world-famous filmmakers, famous politicians of the Polish state, composers and pianists. This place is full of memories, longings of love, disappointments, sorrows, but at the same time the beauty of nature and park architecture.
