There's been a couple of interesting articles recently about the increased interest in what is sometimes now called "tombstone tourism" - visits to the graveyards of the rich and famous.
BBC News Online starts an item:
Visiting a graveyard for enjoyment is not everyone's cup of tea. But tombstone tourists - or "taphophiles" - are increasingly to be found wandering through cemeteries, examining headstones, and generally enjoying the sombre atmosphere. What is the appeal?
They then tell us all about it, and list four world-famous cemeteries - Pere LaChaise (Paris), Cemitério de São João Batista (Rio de Janeiro), Cementerio de la Recoleta (Buenos Aires) and Zentralfriedhof (Vienna). Oddly, they omitted Karori Cemetery (Wellington).
Read all about it here: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-39480595?SThisFB
A shorter item features on the Lonely Planet website: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2017/05/24/dead-interesting-tombstone-tourism-graveyards-history/
BBC News Online starts an item:
Visiting a graveyard for enjoyment is not everyone's cup of tea. But tombstone tourists - or "taphophiles" - are increasingly to be found wandering through cemeteries, examining headstones, and generally enjoying the sombre atmosphere. What is the appeal?
They then tell us all about it, and list four world-famous cemeteries - Pere LaChaise (Paris), Cemitério de São João Batista (Rio de Janeiro), Cementerio de la Recoleta (Buenos Aires) and Zentralfriedhof (Vienna). Oddly, they omitted Karori Cemetery (Wellington).
Read all about it here: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-39480595?SThisFB
A shorter item features on the Lonely Planet website: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2017/05/24/dead-interesting-tombstone-tourism-graveyards-history/