Prazeres Cemetery Lisbon

This guide to Prazeres Cemetery in Lisbon opens with the origin of its name, the Cemetery of Pleasures, and the cholera epidemic of 1833 that forced the city to build it. It leads to the twelve-metre pyramid at its center, the largest private tomb in Europe, built by the Duke of Palmela in 1849. Behind the tomb lies a love story: his parents were kept apart for thirteen years by the Marquis of Pombal himself. Wander the fifty-two avenues of house-shaped mausoleums before you reach it.