{"id":559,"date":"2010-10-07T17:28:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T06:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Austria\/?p=559"},"modified":"2018-06-22T19:15:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T09:15:51","slug":"zentralfriedhof-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Austria\/sightseeing\/zentralfriedhof-cemetery","title":{"rendered":"A Self-Guided Walk Around Vienna’s Zentralfriedhof"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zentralfriedhof-Vienna<\/p><\/div>A visit to a cemetery is not something that most travellers would include in their Vienna travel itinerary – unless the cemetery is one as famous as Vienna’s Zentralfriedhof <\/strong>(Central Cemetery).<\/p>\n

With 330,000 graves and 100 kilometers of roads, the Zentralfriedhof<\/strong> covers an area of 2.5 square kilometers and is Vienna’s largest cemetery and the second largest burial ground in Europe<\/strong>.\u00a0 But size alone would not draw the holiday sightseeing crowd to the cemetery, unless there are some special residents<\/strong> and interesting facts <\/strong>about the place!<\/p>\n

Some of the famous people buried at Zentralfriedhof include Ludwig van Beethoven<\/strong>, Johann Strauss <\/strong>the Elder and Austrian pop legend Falco.<\/p>\n

A New Guide to Help Visitors<\/h4>\n

Vienna’s Central Cemetery<\/strong> is so large that it is all too easy for visitors to lose their way! A new multimedia guide now makes finding all the most interesting graves and sights in Europe’s second largest cemetery (after Ohlsdorf <\/strong>in Hamburg) even easier.<\/p>\n