Eternity Cemetery

Eternitatea Cemetery in Iași was recently included in the list of historical monuments.

The approach is justified both by the beauty of some of the funerary monuments and mausoleums, and by the long list of personalities buried here. Some of the best known are: Ion Creangă, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Maria Obrenovici.

Responsible for the establishment of the cemetery is the mayor Scarlat Pastia, who donated (in 1868) a land located at that time on the outskirts of Iasi, on Tătărași hill. However, he had three wishes: for the cemetery to be called Eternity, for it to be arranged in two years (it seems that it was a little late - about eight years) - he would have known something !, and for a street to be built to connect it with the city. . Scarlat Pastia insisted on the existence of a single cemetery in the city because, until then, almost every church had one (there were almost 50 Orthodox cemeteries, plus some of other cults and minorities), which posed major problems of sanitation and systematization. . The funerary monuments and mausoleums were made by talented sculptors, so a walk through the cemetery puts us in front of real works of art, and a visit here is like browsing the book of literature (George Topirceani, Otilia Cazimir, Dimitrie Anghel, Garabet Ibrăileanu), physics (Ștefan Micle, Elena Cocea, Petru Poni) and not only that. The important families of the city - Balş, Sturdza, Catargiu, Şuţu, etc. - each have their own tomb or mausoleum. The makers of the first funerary monuments are the stone sculptors Frederic Fairing (1863-1935) and Salvador Scutari (1880-1932), also buried here. The cemetery can be visited individually, but also guided, through the Travel BlitzZ association.