World Cemeteries
The Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, New York City (USA)
The Green-Wood Cemetery in New York was founded in the second half of the nineteenth century and in 2006 received the official status of a national monument. It covers an area of 1.9 km². The total number of burials is approximately 560,000. The cost of the most expensive place (personal crypt) is approximately $400,000. Since the founding of the first half of the XIX century, the park's area has expanded to almost 200 ha, almost five times more than in Chicago. Such a place is noteworthy that primarily for architecture. It resembles a walking zone with lakes and sculptures. You can often meet artists and photographers at the cemetery. Prominent politicians, people related to culture, military, members of masonic lodges and others are buried in the cemetery. In the mid- XIX century, Green Wood Cemetery was the second most popular tourist destination after Niagara Falls. The cemetery is visited by up to 500,000 tourists each year. Here, for the first time in the USA, artificial landscape design was used on such a scale - streets, paths, lakes, fountains, numerous statues and mausoleums from the 19th and 20th centuries.
