• The Laeken cemetery also hosts one of the original bronze casts of ‘The Thinker’, one of the most famous sculptures in the world by the Frenchman Auguste Rodin.
  • Laeken Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Laeken; Dutch: Begraafplaats van Laken) in Brussels, Belgium, is the city's oldest cemetery still in function and the resting place...
  • He was the mastermind behind the funerary galleries at both, the Molenbeek-Saint Jean cemetery, and the one in Laeken.
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  • Inaugurated in 1878, the underground burial galleries beneath Laeken Cemetery cover an area of one and a half hectares, 300 meters of corridors.
  • The Laeken cemetery is the oldest of all the cemeteries in Brussels still in function.
  • One of these old areas is Laeken, where many years ago there was a village famous for its European-style houses, as well as the church and Laeken cemetery.
  • In a collage made out of historic layering, additions and subtractions, the cemetery is today confined in a state of utter neglect.
  • The Cemetery of Laeken covers 6.200 m² were you can find around 10.000 graves.
  • ..."Palais de Justice"), is also laid to rest here, which is quite fitting as he was the designed of the nearby neo-Gothic church of Notre-Dame de Laeken.