This is London’s dancing grave! Tucked away in a quiet corner of a London park lies an unusual tribute: a set of musical tombstone tiles created by artist Henry Krokatsis in 2010. With each footstep, visitors trigger notes from a melody once performed by Joseph Grimaldi - the legendary Victorian clown buried just meters away.
A playful, haunting reminder that even in death, the show goes on.
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This is the mysterious grave of Fernand Arbelot at Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. Its unique design certainly divides opinion.
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Europe’s largest tomb hides a world of Masonic symbolism.
This is the Mausoleum of the Dukes of Palmela at Prazeres Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal.
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This is The Doll Hospital (Hospital de Bonecas) in Lisbon, Portugal. For nearly 200 years, the hospital has restored well-loved dolls from around the world.
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Sometimes you’ve just got to roll with it 🎲
This is the grave of Aniceto da Rocha at Prazeres Cemetery, Lisbon, Portugal.
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A surprising secret under one of England’s oldest pubs.
Many thanks to the The Lamb Inn, Eastboune @lamb1790
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Come with me as we visit the surviving cadaver tombs of London.
Cadaver, or “transi”, tombs show the deceased not in life, but in decay. Popular in late medieval and early Tudor Europe, these skeletal effigies reminded viewers of the fragility of earthly life, while also reflecting ideas of penitence and the resurrection.
With thanks to the Museum of the Order of St John and Southwark Cathedral.
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This is the relic of St Etheldreda’s hand at St Etheldreda’s Church, London.
Etheldreda, an Anglo-Saxon princess, founded a monastery on the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire in 673AD.
After her death, believed to have been caused by a swelling of the throat, she came to be known as the patron saint of throat illnesses.
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The Five Most Romantic Graves in Europe 🥀
1. The Grave of Fernand Arbelot, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
Fernand Arbelot’s gravestone shows him reclining, facing for all eternity a sculpted head of his wife.
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2. Léonce Evrard and Louise Flignot, Laeken Cemetery, Brussels
On the summer solstice, sunlight passes through the mausoleum and forms a heart on the stone where the mourning effigy’s hand reaches.
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3. Giorgio Moroni and Ilka Scarneo, Cimitero Monumentale, Milan
Sculpted in 1965 by Riccardo Piter. A modern monument in a cemetery known for grandeur. It fixes a private act of grief in bronze and makes it permanent.
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4. Jacobus van Gorcum and Josephina van Aefferden, Het Oude Kerkhof, Roermond
Van Gorcum died in 1880, a Protestant colonel. Van Aefferden died in 1888, a Catholic aristocrat. Buried on opposite sides of a religious divide, their monument stretches two stone hands across the wall between them.
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5. Abelard and Héloïse, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
Twelfth-century lovers. Secret marriage. Brutal retaliation. Lifelong separation in religious life. Their remains were transferred to Père Lachaise in 1817 and placed beneath a Gothic canopy, turning tragedy into pilgrimage.
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