Pula, Istria, Croatia. War Cemetery of the Navy (Marine Friedhof). Set in a large park, the ex Austro-Hungarian cemetery was founded in 1862. Today, the cemetery covers an area of over 22,000 m2, there would be buried about 150,000 people. In here they are also buried 12 Austro-Hungarian Empire admirals and a turkish admiral, about 300 Italian and German soldiers, the victims of the sinking of the passenger ship Baron Gautsch and crews of military ships Szent Istvan and Viribus Unitis. The last tombs date back from the Yugoslavian socialist period.
Pula, Istria, Croatia. War Cemetery of the Navy (Marine Friedhof). Set in a large park, the ex Austro-Hungarian cemetery was founded in 1862. Today, the cemetery covers an area of over 22,000 m2, there would be buried about 150,000 people. In here they are also buried 12 Austro-Hungarian Empire admirals and a turkish admiral, about 300 Italian and German soldiers, the victims of the sinking of the passenger ship Baron Gautsch and crews of military ships Szent Istvan and Viribus Unitis. The last tombs date back from the Yugoslavian socialist period.
Size: 3872px × 2592px
Location: Stoja, Pula, Istria, Croatia
Photo credit: © Ferdinando Piezzi / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: (marine, ., ..., austro-hungarian, beach, cemetery, croatia, empire, friedhof, graves, istria, marine, navy, pula, stoia, stoja, tombs, valkane, war
