# First Cemetery of Athens

Athens, Greece

Opened in 1837, the official cemetery of Athens is an open-air museum of nineteenth-century funerary sculpture. Set among pines and cypresses behind the Panathenaic Stadium, it holds the graves of poets, prime ministers and Heinrich Schliemann, and the celebrated marble Sleeping Maiden.

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Coordinates: 37.96306, 23.73778

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