Cimetière de Loyasse
Hillside graveyard of nineteenth-century tombs, certified as France's first bird-refuge cemetery.
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This guide to Cimetière de Loyasse in Lyon follows Nicolas Charles Seringe, who ran the city's botanical garden from 1830 and built one of France's great herbariums before his burial here in 1858. It traces the hillside cemetery's own story since it opened in 1807, filling with the city's mayors, surgeons and generals under raked gravel paths and trimmed hedges. You'll hear how Loyasse eventually earned an unusual certification that changed how the city cares for it. Listen for the birdsong as you walk the sculpted rows of angels.
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