BUCHAREST BELLU CEMETERY OR ROMANIAN ARTISTS GRAVEYARD
Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest is the most famous graveyard in Romania because everyone heard of it. Most part of the cultural, political ans social personalities rest in peace here. It is the reason this is called Bucharest Bellu cemetery or Romanian artists graveyard. We know the place because we have visited it many times since we live in Bucharest. We found many information from the employees of the cemetery about the Romanian artists buried here and they are interesting.
THE FIRST FUNERAL AT BUCHAREST BELLU CEMETERY OR ROMANIAN ARTISTS GRAVEYARD
The first funeral here was that of the mayor’s child. It was in 1859 and the ruler of the city was Constantin Alexandru Rosetti. He founded the cemetery because until then authorities had to bury dead people near the churches. The mayor known in history as C. A. Rosetti had a daughter, called Elena and she died when she was only three years old. This was the first funeral at Bucharest Belly cemetery or the Romanian artists graveyard. Her grave does not exist anymore because her father was buried just near it.
ANGEL WITH A CUT HAND BELLU BUCHAREST
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Description: Authorities buried the dead since 1830 in this place
WHERE IS THE ROMANIAN ARTISTS CEMETERY IN BUCHAREST?
Bucharest Bellu cemetery or artists graveyard is on Oltenitei Street 3-5 in the Romanian capital. Inhabitants also calls it Serban Voda Cemetery. There is a chapel in the middle. Authorities built it in the middle of the cemetery in 1890. It is in the style of the Karlsbad Cathedral.
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Description: A politician, C.A. Rosetti had the idea to build the cemetery. One of his children was to be the first buried at Bellu Cemetery Bucharest
Bucharest Bellu cemetery or Romanian artists graveyard appeared in the early 19th century
The first graves appeared in this area in 1831, but the Bucharest Bellu cemetery or artists graveyard was built after 1850. It was the idea of C.A. Rosetti, a Romanian politician of the time. Until the Bucharest Bellu cemetery or artists graveyard became an official place for families to bury their dead, everyone had used the ground around churches. Pavel Kiseleff who was governor of the country between 1829 and 1834 made a change. He decided that special places were needed as graveyards, outside the city. This governer changed the country although his reign was rather short.
BELLU CEMETERY BUCHAREST CHAPEL
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Description: A politician, C.A. Rosetti had the idea to build the cemetery. One of his children was to be the first buried at Bellu Cemetery Bucharest
Bucharest Bellu cemetery or Romanian artists graveyard appeared in the early 19th century
The first graves appeared in this area in 1831, but the Bucharest Bellu cemetery or artists graveyard was built after 1850. It was the idea of C.A. Rosetti, a Romanian politician of the time. Until the Bucharest Bellu cemetery or artists graveyard became an official place for families to bury their dead, everyone had used the ground around churches. Pavel Kiseleff who was governor of the country between 1829 and 1834 made a change. He decided that special places were needed as graveyards, outside the city. This governer changed the country although his reign was rather short.
TOMBS BELLU CEMETERY BUCHAREST
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Description: Some of the graves are gone. The cemetery is more than 150 years old
ALLEY OF THE POETS AT BUCHAREST BELLU CEMETERY
Bellu Cemetery name comes from a local rich man who lived in Bucharest, called Barbu Bellu and who was also the minister of Culture and Justice. He owned the land where they built the new cemetery, according to a law of funeral voted in 1850. He is said to have, as the other landowners of the period also had, a special network of tunnels to escape when the city could be under siege. One of the tunnels would go under nowadays YOUTH PARK IN BUCHAREST, but this information had never been for public. On the right side, as you enter the cemetery is the alley of the artists. Here are buried Mihai Eminescu, the Romanian national poet, I.L. Caragiale, Mihail Sadoveanu or George Calinescu.
ARTISTS ALLEY BUCHAREST BELLU CEMETERY
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Description: Many of the Romanian great writers found peace at Bellu Cemetery Bucharest around a special alley, actually a travel attraction
ATTRACTIONS AT BUCHAREST BELLU CEMETERY OR ROMANIAN ARTISTS GRAVEYARD
One of the main attractions at Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest is the alley of the artists. Here, found their peace most of the Romanian poets and novelists. Among them is the national poet, Mihai Eminescu, who lived between 1850 and 1889. Here is one of his poems in English. “They’re only building in the wind, Ideals void and blind, When human waves run into graves, New waves spring from behind”, would the poet say in his famous poem Hyperion. Scholars translated his poetry in all the languages of the world.
ROMANIAN NATIONAL POET TOMB
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Description: Mihai Eminescu is the most famous poet in Romanian literature, his poetry being studied even today in high-school
Mihai Eminescu’s tomb at Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest is always surrounded by flowers and a woman is taking care of his grave and of the the other artists’ graves too.
EMINESCU TOMB BUCHAREST BELLU CEMETERY
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Description: Mihai Eminescu is the Romanian national poet, he died at the age of 39 and is buried at Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest
CARAGIALE TOMB AT BELLU CEMETERY BUCHAREST
Ion Luca Caragiale is the most important playwright in Romania. His masterpieces, like The Lost Letter or Stormy Night are about the Romanian society at the end of the 19th century, yet, incredibly actual today. And most of the plays are about politics. Reading Caragiale is like looking at the political scene nowadays and not only in Romania. He died in 1912 and was buried at Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest. His plays are usually performed on stage at NATIONAL THEATER BUCHAREST.
CARAGIALE TOMB BELLU CEMETERY BUCHAREST
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Description: Ion Luca Caragiale is considered the best playwright in Romania although he lived a long time ago and is buried at Bellu Cemetery Bucharest
HOW CAN YOU VISIT BUCHAREST BELLY CEMETERY OR ROMANIAN ARTISTS GRAVEYARD
Bellu Cemetery or Serban Voda Cemetery as it is also known can be visited every day from 10 AM to 8 PM. What you shouldn’t miss: the chapel built in 1853 was painted, initially, by Constantin Lecca. Later, for it had fell into ruin, it was painted by Mihail Pop and Dimitrie Belizarie and Arthur Verona. The alley of the writers as we have already said is not to miss either, neither the grave of Aurel Vlaicu, a pioneer of the aviation world wide.
STATUE BUCHAREST BELLU CEMETERY
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Description: Frederick Storck made a lot of monuments in Bucharest Bellu cemetery or artists graveyard
BUCHAREST BELLU CEMETERY OR ROMANIAN ARTISTS GRAVEYARD
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Description: There are lots of monuments in Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest, some of them architectural masterpieces
ACTORS TOMBS IN BUCHAREST
If you turn to left when you enter Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest, you will soon find the alley where the great actors of Romania are buried. Before you see them, you should know that the entire graveyard is full of monuments and sculptures made by famous artists. They are Karl and FREDERIC STORCK, Ion Georgescu or Cornel Medrea. At Bellu Cemetery Bucharest are also buried The Admiral Vasile Urseanu whose OBSERVATORY IN BUCHAREST you can now also visit. Here is also the grave of the great actresse Anda Calugareanu. Are also buried here Iulia Hasdeu, whose father believed she communicated with him after death and, maybe, the greatest poet of Romania, Nichita Stanescu.
WHAT TO SEE AT BELLU CEMETERY BUCHAREST
There are many actors buried at Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest: Birlic, Gheorghe Dinica and, also, Toma Caragiu. The irony at this grave, as you will see, is that this actor has always been a master of irony to the communist regime which was the state from 1946 to 1989. He was making fun of the communists in every movie. Toma Caragiu died in 1977 at the great earthquake and his statue is looking just at the back of a young girl who seems to be a real communist, with the tie of the young communists and so on. You might think that the poor actor will have to look for the eternity at the back of a young communist. 🙂 That was the funny part of our journey to Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest. Just a few steps near is the REVOLUTION HEROES CEMETERY
TOMA CARAGIU TOMB BUCHAREST CEMETERY
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Description: Toma Caragiu was a great actor. He died during the heaviest earthquake that ever hit Romania in March 1977 because he could not leave the flat
BELLU CEMETERY BUCHAREST MAP
