Lisbon Noir » Graveyards http://www.nerogrigio.com/blog Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:57:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cemitério dos Ingleses http://www.nerogrigio.com/blog/2011/08/06/cemiterio-dos-ingleses/ http://www.nerogrigio.com/blog/2011/08/06/cemiterio-dos-ingleses/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:03:29 +0000 amara http://www.nerogrigio.com/blog/?p=1209 Cemitério dos Ingleses (‘British Cemetery’) was founded in 1717 and  is a burial place for mostly non-Portuguese inhabitants of Lisbon and its surrounding areas.  Perhaps the most famous person buried here is Henry Fielding, the English novelist and dramatist who came to Lisbon in 1754 to find a cure for his ailments and never left as he died in Lisbon only 2 months after his arrival.

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The cemetery also provides great views over the Alcântara valley, the river Tejo and the Ponte 25 de Abril and can be reached by taking Electrico 28, which is a traditional and charming Lisbon tram,  to its last stop in Prazeres.

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