Saint Roch Cemetery
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Established | 1810 |
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Country | France |
Coordinates | 45°11′39″N 5°44′23″E / 45.1943°N 5.7397°E |
Type | Public |
Size | 32.12 acres (13.00 ha) |
Saint Roch Cemetery (
Located on the rue du Souvenir, alongside the Isère, in the district of Île Verte, it is the city's only intramural cemetery, currently containing 25,000 graves over an area of 13 hectares (32.12 acres). The city has another cemetery, that of Grand Sablon, in the adjacent city of La Tronche.
Among those buried here are political leaders, military personnel, scientists and artists. The most important tombs however are of manufacturers of gloves. The sculptors Victor Sappey, Henri Ding, Eustache Bernard, Aimé Charles Irvoy and Urbain Basset are also buried here.
Many mayors of the city since the
The most prestigious monument in the cemetery is the Saint Roch Chapel, built during the Bourbon Restoration in 1826 to replace the old chapel of the same name, built in the 15th century near a hospital for lepers.[1]
References
External links
- Saint-Roch ! Vous avez dit cimetière ? (in French)
- Saint Roch Cemetery on a web site for French cemeteries (in French)