Sherban Voda Memorial Cemetery (better known as Bella ) is one of the largest and most famous cemeteries in Bucharest (Romania).
| Cemetery | |
| Sherban Voda (Bella) | |
|---|---|
| Cimitirul Bellu (Șerban Vodă) | |
| A country | |
| City | Bucharest |
| First mention | 1858 year |
| Established | |
| Status | public |
The main entrance to the Bella cemetery
Monument to M. Eminescu
It was created in 1858 on a plot of land transferred to the city in 1853 by Baron Barbu Bell ( rum. ). It occupies 28 hectares at the intersection of the capital streets Giurgiului, Olteniţei, Viilor and Calea Şerban Vodă.
The burial place of many famous figures of history and culture of Romania and Moldova.
Celebrities Buried in Bella Cemetery
- Alistar, Elena - public figure
- Aman, Theodore - artist
- Bakovia, George - Symbolist Poet
- Vuya, Trajan - Romanian aviator
- Efthymiou, Victor - Romanian playwright, poet, prose writer, translator and theater figure.
- Ion Barbu - mathematician and poet
- Vacarescu, Enakitsa - poet, historian, author of one of the first Romanian grammars.
- Vacarescu, Ianco - poet, translator. Worker of national and cultural revival of Wallachia.
- Vasile, Radu - Prime Minister of Romania
- Inkulets, Ion Konstantinovich - Bessarabian and Romanian politician
- Ispirescu, Petre - writer
- Istrati, Panahit - writer
- Jorga, Nicolae - historian, academician of the Romanian Academy, in 1931–32. Prime Minister of Romania
- Yordan, Yorgu - philologist and linguist, politician
- Bunescu, Marius - artist
- Karaciale, Ion Luca - writer, playwright
- Kersel, Florina - actress
- Coanda, Henry - aerodynamics scientist, pioneer of the Coanda effect
- Koshbuk, George - the poet
- Labisse, Nicolae - poet
- Lauriano, Augustine Tribonius - historian, linguist, journalist, revolutionary, politician, publicist. President of the Romanian Academy
- Lukyan, Stefan - impressionist painter
- Macedonski, Alexandru - poet and writer
- Minku, Ion - Architect
- Minulescu, Ion - poet and writer
- Pallady, Theodore - artist
- Papadat Benjescu, Hydrangea - writer
- Pella, Amza - actor
- Petrescu, Jike - singer and composer
- Petrescu, Camille - prose writer
- Petrescu, Cesar - writer
- Petish, Florian - actor
- Paunescu, Adrian - poet and publicist
- Rebrianu, Liviu - writer
- Radulescu, Dem - actor
- Redescu, Nicolae - Romania's last Prime Minister of the pre-communist period
- Sadovyanu, Mikhail - writer
- Spataru, Dan - singer
- Stanescu, Nikita - poet
- Teodoryanu, Yonel - writer
- Tanase, Maria - singer
- Ursulyas, Michaela - pianist
- Philemon, Nicolae - writer
- Hashdeu, Bogdan Petricheyku - prose writer, poet, philologist, publicist, historian
- Hashdeu, Julia - poet
- Hossu, Emil - film and theater actor
- Eminescu, Mihai - poet, classic of Romanian literature