Visit Campo Santo

Campo Santo, the Père-Lachaise van Gent on a hill, is a large cemetery in Sint-Amandsberg, a sub-municipality of the Belgian city of Ghent, named like the Campo Santo cemetery in Rome. It is a graveyard where many Catholic celebrities are buried, but also some freethinkers. Many literary scholars, painters, and composers found their final resting place here. Our guide Geert Cocquyt takes you along and tells you more about the final resting place of, among others, art connoisseur Jan Hoet, singer Luc De Vos, comic artist Marc Sleen, ... Starting place: Visitatiestraat 13 - 9040 Ghent