Vyšehrad cemetery

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Cemetery

Established in 1869 on the grounds of Vyšehrad Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, the Vyšehrad cemetery (Vyšehradský hřbitov in Czech) is the final resting place of many composers, artists, sculptors, writers, and those from the world of science and politics. The centrepiece of the cemetery is the Slavín Monument designed by Antonín Wiehl and the cemetery is sometimes referred to as the Slavín cemetery.

Some of the famous Czechs interred here:

Mikoláš Aleš (1852-1913), painter
Karel Ančerl (1908-1973), conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Josef Bican (1913-2001), footballer
Karel Čapek (1890-1938), playwright
Antonín Chittussi (1847-1891), painter
Emmy Destinn (Ema Destinnová, 1878-1930), opera singer
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904), composer
František Hrubín (1910-1971), writer and poet, friend of Jaroslav Seifert
Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890-1967), Nobel prize winning founder of polarography
Milada Horáková (1901-1950), doctor, victim of 1950s Czechoslovak communist party show trials
Rafael Kubelík (1914-1996), conductor and composer
Karel Hynek Mácha (1810-1836), romantic poet
Alfons Mucha (1860-1939), painter
Josef Václav Myslbek (1848-1922), sculptor
Jan Neruda (1834-1891), poet, writer
Božena Němcová (1820-1862), writer, author of the novel "Babička" (The Grandmother)
Zdeněk Nejedlý (1878-1962), musicologist, critic, and Communist politician
Otakar Ostrčil (1879-1935)), composer and conductor of the National Theater
Olga Scheinpflugová (1902-1968), actress and wife of Karel Čapek
Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884), composer
Ladislav Šaloun (1870-1946), Art Nouveau sculptor
Max Švabinský (1873-1962), painter