Poland

Rakowicki Cemetery

Kraków’s historic cemetery and first burial Rakowicki Cemetery is one of Kraków’s most important historic burial grounds, but its story begins with a practical change in public health and city planning. The municipal cemetery operator says it was established in 1801–02 on the former Bosacki farm, then outside the built-up city. Austrian authorities bought the land from the Discalced Carmelites, while Kraków and nearby communities paid for the cemetery. The first burial took place in…...