check out the seven graves all next to each other on the main walkway. Also visit the rock church inside the cemetery

check out the seven graves all next to each other on the main walkway. Also visit the rock church inside the cemetery
If you think cemetery's to be a bit gloomy and dull - visit this one. The ancient grave sites are ornately decorated and well tended with flowers and shrubbery. Perusing the names and dates is a lesson in history that shouldn't be missed. You will spend more time here than you think you would. well worth a visit.
It's really quiet, really nice cemetary, I thought at first it was a garden, due to different flowers & green surronding:p
went to the church and followed the signs to the cemetery but they disappeared. keep to the right. the Mozart family tomb is on the path in the center of the graveyard.
This sight makes a lovely stroll. You can photograph beautiful tombs and tombstones. But don't waste a penny on the Catacombs!
The church is quaint and the grounds are beautiful. There is even a working water wheel to serve the bakery on the grounds.
There are names of people here on some very beautifully designed head stones going back centuries, it's well worth a sticky beak, and look around.
This century-old cemetery, where Joseph Haydn's brother and Mozart's sister are buried in the "chapel" with the Dance-of-Death paintings (not to be missed, by the way) is quite an experience. But what adds to this is a walk up (not down ...) to the catacombs (there is an entrance fee of a bit more than one Euro), where 4th-century Christians...
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Beautiful cemetery with unusual and ornate iron grave markers. Worth the half our or so that it takes to stroll through - we went there twice!
Beautiful cemetery - worth walking through and it doesn't talk long. Also be sure to stop by St. Peters Bakery :)
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