Apr 3, 2025

Gamla Kyrkogården Malmö

A cemetery and a park?

""Gamla Kyrkogården" in Malmö is a very nice & quiet oasis in the town center. It's actually an old graveyard, but it has an especially serene atmosphere..."

Gustav Adolf square is one of my most frequented bus hubs and one day when I had to go to the library, which wasn’t that far away, I decided to take a shortcut through the park nearby. To my surprise, it wasn’t a regular park but a cemetery. It is not very old -- established in 1820 and still in use (!), although I haven’t witnessed any funerals there. The plots must be expensive...

In any case, it’s a very nice and quiet oasis in the town center. Not that Malmö doesn’t have enough parks, but this one has a very serene atmosphere. People still do come here to take care of the graves of their great-grandparents and to water the plants around. Whenever you walk trough, you want to slow down a bit, look around, maybe read some of the names on the gravestones. In the center of the park, there is a statue of something that looks like a man at the end of a rainbow – not sure how else to describe it; when you see it, you’ll know what I meant. Apparently, its sister is in a park in Stockholm made by the same sculptor, and despite being hundreds of kilometres away, both figures are looking towards each other.

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