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Cities of the Dead: The World’s Most Beautiful Cemeteries

by Yolanda Zappaterra
Frances Lincoln. Sept. 2022. 240p. ISBN 9780711265783. $45. REF
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Travel writer Zappaterra (Amazing Art Adventures: Around the World in 400 Immersive Experiences), with input from other taphophiles, explores 50 cemeteries with notable architecture, landscaping, location, views, cultural contributions, or combinations of elements. Divided by region, the choices skew towards North America and Europe, with representation worldwide. Entries include at least one atmospheric photograph and information on location, date established, notable people buried within, historical notes, and in many cases, a quirky fact or story.
VERDICT An engaging and moving wander, from the 3,000-year-old Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, to the Douaumont Ossuary and Verdun Memorial, containing the bones of more than 130,000 unidentified soldiers from World War I, to the starkly modern Maqbaratol Shoara in Iran.
Reviewed by Maggie Knapp , May 01, 2023
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