Slavín Cemetery (Prague-Vyšehrad)
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Slavín - Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague is more than just a normal, quiet cemetery. It is the final resting place for the Czech most honoured composers, artists, sculptors, writers, scientists and politicians...
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 05/13/2009
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On a rock over the River Vltava, is the oldest seat of the Premyslid princes and former main Prague's fortress - Vyšehrad. In the vicinity of St. Peter and Paul's Basilica is Slavín - a cemetery with the tombs of famous representatives of Czech culture.
The Vyšehrad cemetery gained its current shape in 1869. It ranks among the most important Prague cemeteries. A cemetery stood in its place as early as 1260. Its importance grew with the founding of "Slavín". It is the final resting place of the most significant personalities of the Czech nation. Slavín was built between 1889 and 1893. Above the central memorial at Slavín is a sarcophagus with an allegorical winged statue the Genius Patriae. The motto of the Slavín cemetery is engraved above the name plates: "Though dead, they still speak..." To date, more than 600 personalities from the world of Czech culture and education have been buried here. They include, for example, the composers Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak, the painter Alfons Mucha, the opera singer Ema Destinova, the writer Karel Capek, the Nobel Prize winner Jaroslav Heyrovsky and many others...