Free tours of the Madeleine cemetery

Name: Free tours of the Madeleine cemetery
Start: 2022-09-17T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Cimetière de la Madeleine

Much more than a cemetery, the Madeleine is a remarkable garden where nature and culture merge.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

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L.Rousselin

Subtly combining the charm of a romantic garden and the interest of a small museum of funerary art, the cemetery of the Madeleine gathers the graves of many personalities of Amiénoises of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Let yourself be seduced by an original walk in the heart of an amazing atmosphere!

Types d'événement

Visite libre

Thème 2022

Patrimoine durable

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

About the location

Cimetière de la Madeleine

480 rue Saint Maurice - 80080 Amiens

Somme
Hauts-de-France

At the end of the XVIIth century, one decided on him(it) to create a new cemetery except the city in the location of maladrerie old(former), the cemetery of Madeleine. The cemetery of Madeleine was put into service in 1817\. Dales and coteaux of the site allowed to the architect of the city of Amiens, François-Augustus Cheussey, to realise an English-style park where alternate plains, sported spaces, gone and graves among which some are real mausoleums.