- But the city has plenty of other old cemeteries to visit. One of those is the Olšany Cemetery, which originally started as a place to bury plague victims.
- So Olšany was expanded and became the city’s only cemetery. The cemetery was laid out for as many as two million burials, which frankly seems astonishing.
- Wandering along the paths, the gravestones draped in ivy but without the sense of neglect and desperate wildness some cemeteries have.
- Olšany Cemetery. Olšany cemetery in Žižkov with 2 million dead is the largest graveyard not only in Prague, but also in the Czech Republic.
- The Cemetary was formed after Europe was rocked by two plagues in a row. ... Since 1786, though, the Olšany Cemetary has been used as a regular cemetery.
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- The Olšany Cemeteries were created in 1680 to accommodate plague victims who died en masse in Prague and needed to be buried quickly.
- The Olšany Cemetery was originally created for the victims of the 1680 plague, and while many well-known people are laid to rest here, perhaps the most famous is...
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