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Cimitero Nossa Senhora da Soledade

Belém, Italy

Cimitero Nossa Senhora da Soledade

Our Lady of Solitude Cemetery (Portuguese: Cemitério de Nossa Senhora da Soledade) is a former cemetery and, nowadays, an urban park in Brazil, originally established as a public necropolis in 1850 by Captain Joaquim Vitorino de Sousa Cabral in the Batista Campos neighborhood of Belém, Pará. It was

created in response to the epidemics that affected the city during the 19th century. The site was listed as architectural heritage in 1964. In 2023, it was converted into an urban park, museum, and cultural space. The number of burials at the site exceeds thirty thousand, largely due to the yellow fever epidemic of 1850 and the cholera epidemic of 1885.

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