{{Short description|Cemetery in Monaco}} {{Infobox cemetery | name =Monaco Cemetery | image = ABABBAABBA Monaco.jpg | imagesize = | map_type = | map_size = | map_caption = | caption = | established = | country = Monaco | location = La Colle | coordinates = {{Coord|43.72926|7.41163|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | latitude = | longitude = | type = Public, non-denominational | style = | owner = | size = | interments = | website = {{URL|https://www.mairie.mc/poles/pratique/cimetiere/le-cimetiere}} | findagraveid= 639670 }} The '''Monaco Cemetery''' (French: ''Cimetière de Monaco'') is a cemetery in La Colle, Principality of Monaco.<ref name=villecimetiere>{{cite web|title=Le cimetière|url=http://www.mairie.mc/poles/pratique/cimetiere/le-cimetiere|website=Ville de Monaco|access-date=December 26, 2015}}</ref>
== History == In 2015, computer screens were installed throughout the cemetery to help visitors locate specific tombs.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="desbornesmonacocimetiere" />
On 27 August 2015 Albert II, Prince of Monaco dedicated a memorial stele in honour of foreign Jews who were taken from Monegasque hotels by the Nazis during the night of 27–28 August 1942.<ref name="demandepardon20min">{{cite news |last1=Floux |first1=Florence |date=August 27, 2015 |title=Le prince Albert demande pardon pour l'arrestation de juifs à Monaco |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/monde/1674215-20150827-prince-albert-demande-pardon-arrestation-juifs-monaco |access-date=December 26, 2015 |work=20 Minutes}}</ref>
In 2024, 200 tombs were moved from the lower part of the cemetery to make room for the construction of the new Charles III strip.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bonarrigo |first=Sabrina |date=15 November 2024 |title=Déplacement des tombes à Monaco : « Notre maître mot est le respect des familles » |url=https://lobservateurdemonaco.com/infos/deplacement-des-tombes-a-monaco-notre-maitre-mot-est-le-respect-des-familles/ |access-date=2026-01-03 |work=lobservateurdemonaco.com |language=fr}}</ref> In 2025, the cemetery started to build a new square containing 200 new spaces, to enhance the capacity of the crematorium, and to build an underground parking area with connecting elevators.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Becam |first=Jérémy |date=2025-11-01 |title=Nouveaux emplacements, nouvelles salles et des ascenseurs : le cimetière de Monaco se modernise |url=https://www.nicematin.com/societe/vie-locale/nouveaux-emplacements-nouvelles-salles-et-des-ascenseurs-le-cimetiere-de-monaco-se-modernise-10654901 |access-date=2026-01-03 |website=Nice-Matin |language=fr}}</ref> ==Description== The cemetery contained 2350 tombs until 2014, when 198 more were built.<ref name=villecimetiere/> Its columbarium holds 546 boxes. The dispersion of ashes is done in the lower Jardin du Souvenir (Garden of the Memory), in a container that is emptied in the cemetery's underground ossuary when full.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Esteve |first=Camille |date=26 April 2023 |title=Cimetière de Monaco : plongée dans 150 ans d’Histoire |url=https://www.monaco-tribune.com/2023/04/cimetiere-de-monaco-plongee-dans-150-ans-dhistoire/ |access-date=2026-01-03 |work=monaco-tribune.com |language=fr}}</ref> It is open to the public from 8am to 7pm in the summer and from 8am to 6pm in the winter.<ref name=villecimetiere/>
On-site connected devices enable visitors to easily find a grave by its occupant's name. The concession for a grave lasts 30 years. The cemetery computer system is programmed to ping the municipality when a concession is about to expire.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2018-02-11 |title=A Monaco, le cimetière est connecté |url=https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/provence-alpes-cote-d-azur/monaco-cimetiere-est-connecte-1567660.html |access-date=2026-01-03 |website=France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
Many sculptures in the cemetery were designed by Umberto Bassignani.<ref name="mairieumberto">{{cite web|title=La Mairie de Monaco rend hommage à Umberto Bassignani, sculpteur|url=http://www.mairie.mc/actualites/2017/5/la-mairie-de-monaco-rend-hommage-a-umberto-bassignani-sculpteur-02-05-2017|website=Mairie de Monaco|access-date=May 4, 2017}}</ref> ==Notable burials== * Josephine Baker, American-French entertainer, civil rights activist, and war heroine and her fourth husband, composer Jo Bouillon.<ref name=amisperemonaco>{{cite web|title=Visite funéraire de Monaco|url=http://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=59|website=Amis et Passionés du Père-Lachaise|access-date=December 26, 2015}}</ref> While her remains continue to be interred in Monaco, Baker is honoured with a cenotaph in the Panthéon in Paris, into which she was inducted, as the first black woman, in November 2021.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Beardsley |first=Eleanor |date=2021-11-30 |title=Josephine Baker is the first Black woman to be inducted into France's Pantheon |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/11/30/1059776777/josephine-baker-france-pantheon |access-date=2025-11-07 |work=NPR |language=en}}</ref> * Marie Bell and her husband Jean Chevrier, actors<ref name=amisperemonaco/> * Jules Bianchi, Formula One driver * Anthony Burgess, writer * Silas Burroughs, pharmacist * Cécile Chaminade, composer * Lady Anne Blanche Alice Coventry (1874–1956) – Third daughter of George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry, and wife of Prince Victor Duleep Singh, known after marriage as Princess Victor Duleep Singh. * Prince Victor Duleep Singh (1866–1918) – Eldest son of Maharaja Duleep Singh and godson of Queen Victoria. * Princess Irene Duleep Singh Villemant (1889–1926) – Youngest daughter of Maharaja Duleep Singh and the last-born member of the royal line descending from Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire and former owner of the Koh-i-Noor diamond. * Léo Ferré, poet and composer<ref name=amisperemonaco/> * Jean-Michel Folon, artist<ref name=desbornesmonacocimetiere>{{cite news|last1=Verany|first1=Cedric|title=Monaco Cimetière : des bornes interactives pour retrouver les tombes|url=http://archives.monacomatin.mc/article/societe/monaco-cimetiere-des-bornes-interactives-pour-retrouver-les-tombes.41578.html|access-date=December 26, 2015|work=Monaco Matin|date=November 1, 2008}}</ref> * Lewis Gilbert, screenwriter and director * Sir Roger Moore, British actor<ref name="Owen2020">{{cite book|author=Gareth Owen|title=Raising an Eyebrow: My Life with Sir Roger Moore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SrPDDwAAQBAJ|year= 2020|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-0-7509-9449-1|page=218}}</ref> * Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, and a member of the Pahlavi dynasty<ref name=Pure>{{Cite news|title=Obsèques d'Ashraf Pahlavi: Farah Diba en deuil, adieu discret à la soeur du Shah|url=https://www.purepeople.com/article/obseques-d-ashraf-pahlavi-farah-diba-en-deuil-adieu-discret-a-la-soeur-du-shah_a171130/1|newspaper=Pure People|date=19 January 2016}} {{in lang|fr}}</ref> * Henryk Szeryng, violinist
There are two Commonwealth War Graves Commission graves at the cemetery. They are the graves of two British soldiers of the First World War; Private A. C. V. Dyer of the Royal Army Medical Corps, who died in May 1917 aged 22, and Captain Leo Lucas Ralli (of the Ralli baronets) of the Army Service Corps who died in April 1917 aged 33.<ref name=CWGC>{{cite web|title=Monaco Principality Cemetery|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/34014/MONACO%20PRINCIPALITY%20CEMETERY|website=Commonwealth War Graves Commission|access-date=October 11, 2016}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Find a Grave cemetery}}
Category:Cemeteries in Monaco Category:Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries Category:La Colle, Monaco Category:1868 establishments in Monaco