The Monaco Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Monaco) is a cemetery in
La Colle.[1]
Overview
The cemetery contained 2350 tombs until 2014, when 198 more were built.[1] It is open to the public from 8am to 7pm in the summer and from 8am to 6pm in the winter.[1]
Since 2008, two computer screens at the entry gate enable visitors to locate specific tombs before they go in.[3]
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.[4]
Notable burials
Josephine Baker, American-French entertainer, civil rights activist, and war hero and her fourth husband, composer
Jo Bouillon[5]