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Mirogoj main entrance

Mirogoj arcade

Franjo Tuđman's grave

The Mirogoj Cemetery is considered to be one of the most beautiful cemetery parks in Europe and, thanks to its design, numbers among the more noteworthy landmarks in the City of Zagreb.

The cemetery was created in 1876 on a plot of land owned by the linguist Ljudevit Gaj. It is located today in the Gornji Grad - Medveščak city district, on Mirogojska Road and Hermann Bollé Street.

Architect Hermann Bollé designed the main building. The construction of the arcades, the cupolas, and the church in the entryway has begun in 1879. Work was finished in 1929.

In the arcades are the last resting places of many famous Croatians.

The cemetery inters members of all religious groups: Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Protestant, Latter Day Saints and irreligious graves can all be found.

ZET bus line 106 runs between the cemetery and the Kaptol bus terminal in the heart of Zagreb.

Contents 1 List of famous people buried in Mirogoj 2 Memorials 3 Notes 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] List of famous people buried in Mirogoj

• Krešimir Ćosić - Basketball Hall of Famer
• Stjepan Đureković - Croatian businessman and assassination victim
• Ljudevit Gaj - Co-founder of the Illyrian movement
• Rudolf Horvat - historian
• Miroslav Krleža - famous writer
• Oton Kučera - gifted astronomer
• Vladko Maček - Co-signatory of the Cvetković-Maček Agreement
• Savić Marković Štedimlija - Montenegrin-Croat publicist and Ustaša cooperator
• Maximilian Njegovan - Commander-in-chief and admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy^[1]
• Dražen Petrović - Basketball Hall of Famer
• Vladimir Prelog - Nobel prize-winning chemist
• Petar Preradović - poet
• Stjepan Radić - Leader of the Croatian Peasants Party
• Franjo Tuđman - The first president of Republic of Croatia
• Tin Ujević - poet
• Emil Uzelac - Head of the Austro-Hungarian air force
• Vladimir Nazor - First President of People's Republic/Socialist Republic of Croatia
• Ivica Račan - 7th Croatian Prime minister, long time leader of Social-Democrats

[edit] Memorials

• Monument to Fallen Croatian Soldiers in World War One (1919)
• Monument to the Yugoslav National Hero
• Memorial Cross to Croatian Home Guard Soldiers (1993)
• Monument to the Victims of Bleiburg and the Way of the Cross (1994)
• German military cemetery (1996)
• Monument of the "Voice of Croatian Victims - Wall of Pain" (to Croatian victims of the Croatian War of Independence)

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

• History of Zagreb

[edit] External links

• (Croatian) cemetery official site
• article about the Mirogoj

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Coordinates: 45°50′8.5″N 15°59′4″E / 45.835694°N 15.98444°E / 45.835694; 15.98444