Bellu cemetery Bucharest.

Everyone knows that Bellu Cemetery is Romania’s Père Lachaise, that it is home to artists, writers, and influential politicians, and that many of its funerary monuments are works of art.Such a cemetery also hides some secrets or things less known to the general public.For three centuries, the Bellu Cemetery has been the final resting place of Romania’s more or less positive celebrities. Here are Mihai Eminescu, Caragiale, artists, as well as noble families. However, there are also problematic figures such as Dinu Patriciu and Fane Spoitoru, as well as regular people with exceptional stories.You walk through the cemetery’s shadowy alleyways with reverence and trepidation, so as not to disturb the calm and harmony of the graves that are arranged shoulder to shoulder. Monuments, tombs, statues, and busts on both sides reveal their hidden stories. Karl Storck, Ion Mincu, Cornel Medrea, Raffaelo Romanelli, and Dumitru Paciurea are among the outstanding sculptors of the nineteenth century.

In the middle of the 19th century, on erban-Vodă Street, there was an orange garden belonging to Baron Barbu Bellu, Minister of Cults and Justice. Barbu Bellu donated the 15-hectare plot of land to the City Council, which settled on the cemetery’s layout in this location by the end of 1852.The idea for the creation of the chapel on the site where once stood the church of Bellu cel Bătrân, the father of Baron Barbu…