LJUBLJANA CEMETERY
03 January
Žale Central Cemetery is located north of the city centre of Ljubljana and is the biggest cemetery in the city and also in Slovenia. It was built in 1906 and in May of the same year first burial took place.
Due to a growing population of Ljubljana and a law from the Austrian trade order that gave prior right to citizens at issuing and performing funeral concessions (in 1907), authorities were planning to expend the cemetery. At first they hired architect Ivo Spinčič, and then in 1936 architect Jože Plečnik.
Plečnik’s cemetery
At the entrance Plečnik built monumental arch with a two-storey colonnade, which symbolically divides the world of the dead from the world of the living. Opposite the arch stands the cemetery's main oratory and other chapels.
More than 150 thousand people are buried in Žale cemetery, some of them prominent people, like important slovenian poets, painters, composers etc.
There are also graves from World War I and II and one of the most interesting things here is ossuary of the victims of World War I. It was built by architect Edvard Ravnikar, a student of Plečnik, and almost 5.300 people are buried here, including soldiers from Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia, Serbia, Romania etc.
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