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Sea of Flames | Mirogoj Cemetery, Zagreb, Croatia
The Grim is opening the gate to Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb, Croatia, which marks its 150th anniversary this month. Behind its long wall of arcades and green copper domes lie an estimated 322,000 people. On this episode, we trace Mirogoj from the debts of Ljudevit Gaj, the Croatian National Revival leader whose ruined estate became the city's burial ground, through architect Hermann Bollé's famous arcades and a century of war memorials, to the 2020 Zagreb earthquake that left the arcades fenced off and still awaiting restoration.
Along the way: the fencing teacher who became Mirogoj's first…
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