Great Cemetery, Riga

Riga · Latvia

Great Cemetery, Riga, Latvia
Photo: Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Founded in 1773, this once-grand Baltic German cemetery became a memorial park after wartime damage, preserving scattered tombs and chapels. Overgrown avenues and ruined mausoleums evoke the vanished elite of old Riga.

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