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The First Cemetery of Athens is the official cemetery of the City of Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
 and the first to be built. It opened in 1837 and soon became a luxurious cemetery for famous Greek people
Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
 and foreigners. The cemetery is located behind the Temple of Olympian Zeus
Temple of Olympian Zeus

The Temple of Olympian Zeus , also known as the Olympieion, is a colossal ruined temple in the centre of the Greece capital Athens that was dedicated to Zeus, king of the Twelve Olympians....
 and the Panathinaiko Stadium
Panathinaiko Stadium

The Panathinaiko or Panathenaic Stadium in Athens is the only major stadium in the world built fully of white marble . It should not be confused with the Panathinaikos football pitch at Alexandras Avenue....
 in central Athens. It can be found at the top end of Anapafseos Street (Eternal Rest Street). It is large green space including pines and cypresses. In the cemetery there are three churches.






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The First Cemetery of Athens is the official cemetery of the City of Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
 and the first to be built. It opened in 1837 and soon became a luxurious cemetery for famous Greek people
Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
 and foreigners. The cemetery is located behind the Temple of Olympian Zeus
Temple of Olympian Zeus

The Temple of Olympian Zeus , also known as the Olympieion, is a colossal ruined temple in the centre of the Greece capital Athens that was dedicated to Zeus, king of the Twelve Olympians....
 and the Panathinaiko Stadium
Panathinaiko Stadium

The Panathinaiko or Panathenaic Stadium in Athens is the only major stadium in the world built fully of white marble . It should not be confused with the Panathinaikos football pitch at Alexandras Avenue....
 in central Athens. It can be found at the top end of Anapafseos Street (Eternal Rest Street). It is large green space including pines and cypresses. In the cemetery there are three churches. The main is the Church of Saint Theodore
Saint Theodore

Saint Theodore can refer to a person, place, church, or school:*Theodore of Amasea, or of Tyre, "the Tyro", "the Recruit", a 4th century military saint and martyr...
 and there is also a smaller of Saint Lazarus. The third church is a Catholic
Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
 church. There are also separate places for protestants and Jews. The most impressive tombs are the tomb of Heinrich Schliemann
Heinrich Schliemann

Heinrich Schliemann...
, designed by Ernst Ziller
Ernst Ziller

Ernst Moritz Theodor Ziller was a Saxony architect who later became a Greece national, and in the late 1800s and early 1900s was a major designer of royal and municipal buildings in Athens, Patras and other major Greek cities....
, the tomb of Ioannis Pesmazoglou
Ioannis Pesmazoglou

Ioannis Pesmazoglou was a Greece banker, economist and politician. He is a descended from Constantinople and studied economis sciences in Paris and in the beginning, he was employed at Credit Lyonnais in Alexandria in Egypt and later in 1882, he was member of the Anglo-Egyptian Bank....
, that of Georgios Averoff and many others. But one of the most beautiful tombs must surely be the one named I Kimomeni (the Sleeping Girl), by the sculptor Yianoulis Chalepas, from the island Tinos
Tinos

Tinos is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It is located in the Cyclades archipelago. In ancient times, Tinos was also known as Ophiussa and Hydroessa ....
. The cemetery is under the Municipality of Athens and it is declared as an historical monument.

Notable resting people

  • Melina Mercouri
    Melina Mercouri

    Melina Mercouri , born Maria Amalia Mercouri , was an Academy Award-nominated Greeks Actor, Singing and politician. She is considered one of the greatest female figures of modern era in Greece, being an actress of international fame and a politician who left her mark on Culture of Greece....
    , singer, actress, politician
  • Heinrich Schliemann
    Heinrich Schliemann

    Heinrich Schliemann...
    , archaeologist
  • Vassilis Tsitsanis
    Vassilis Tsitsanis

    Vassilis Tsitsanis was a Greece songwriter and bouzouki player. He became one of the leading Greek composers of his time and is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern Rebetika....
    , rebetiko
    Rebetiko

    Rebetiko, plural rebetika, , occasionally transliterated as Rembetiko, is the name for a type of Greece urban folk music. A roots music form of sorts, the sound of the genre reflects the combined influences of European music and Middle Eastern music....
     composer
  • Andreas Papandreou
    Andreas Papandreou

    Andreas Papandreou was a Greece economics, a socialist politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics. He served two terms as Prime Minister of Greece ....
    , Prime Minister of Greece
    Prime Minister of Greece

    The Prime Minister of Greece , officially: Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic , is the head of government of the Hellenic Republic and the leader of the Cabinet of Greece....
  • Aliki Vougiouklaki
    Aliki Vougiouklaki

    Aliki Vougiouklaki was a Greeks actress. She was considered as one of the most, if not the most, popular and successful actresses of the cinema of Greece....
    , actress, singer
  • Demetrios Farmakopoulos
    Demetrios Farmakopoulos

    Demetrios Farmakopoulos, ,, also known as Mimis Farmakopoulos. An influential Greek people painter whose main recurring theme is space and the future....
    , painter
  • T.H. White, author
  • Katina Paxinou
    Katina Paxinou

    Katina Paxinou was an Academy Awards- and Golden Globe-winning Greece film and theatre actor....
    , actress
  • Humphrey Jennings
    Humphrey Jennings

    Humphrey Jennings , was an England filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization. Jennings was described by film maker Lindsay Anderson as: "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced."...
    , filmmaker
  • Richard Church
    Richard Church (general)

    Sir Richard Church Royal Guelphic Order, Order of the Bath , was an Anglo-Irish military officer and general in the Hellenic Army during the last stages of the Greek Revolution....
    , soldier
  • Giorgos Seferis
    Giorgos Seferis

    Giorgos or George Seferis was the pen name of Georgios Seferi?des was one of the most important Greece poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel Prize laureate....
    , poet
  • Heinrich Schliemann
    Heinrich Schliemann

    Heinrich Schliemann...
    , adventurer
  • George Papandreou
    George Papandreou (senior)

    George Papandreou was a Greece politician, who served three terms as Prime Minister of Greece. He was born at Kalentzi, in Achaea in West Greece....
    , Prime Minister of Greece
    Prime Minister of Greece

    The Prime Minister of Greece , officially: Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic , is the head of government of the Hellenic Republic and the leader of the Cabinet of Greece....
  • Adolf Furtwängler
    Adolf Furtwängler

    Adolf Furtw?ngler was a famous Germany archaeologist, teacher, art historian and museum director. He was the father of the conductor Wilhelm Furtw?ngler and grandfather of the Germany archaeologist Andreas Furtw?ngler....
    , author
  • George Averoff
    George Averoff

    George M. Averoff , alternately Georgios Averof , was a Greece businessman and philanthropy.Born in the Aromanians town of Metsovo, Averoff moved to Alexandria while still young....
    , philanthropist
    Philanthropist

    A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable organization....
    , businessman
  • Andreas Michalakopoulos
    Andreas Michalakopoulos

    Andreas Michalakopoulos was an important liberal politician in the inter-war period who served as List of Prime Ministers of Greece from October 7, 1924 to June 26, 1925....
    , statesman