Lapa Cemetery

The Cemetery of the Brotherhood of Nossa Senhora da Lapa is the oldest Portuguese romantic cemetery. The mausoleums settled here by the noble families whose members are buried here turn this cemetery into a “museum on death”, displaying funerary art from the 19th century. It holds the tombs of renowned people, such as the writers Arnaldo Gama, Camilo Castelo Branco and Soares de Passos, the architects and artists Marques da Silva and Marques de Oliveira, the bishop D. Manuel de Santa Inês, and the industrial José Ferreira Borges, among many others. In 2013 it was classified as Estate of Public Interest.