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Five minutes' walk from the Crime and Police History Museum, along Fiume ut, you'll find Kerepesi Cemetery , the Pere Lachaise of Budapest, where the famous, great and not-so-good are buried (daily: April & Aug 7am-7pm, May-July 7am-8pm, Sept 7am-6pm, Oct 7am-5.30pm, Nov-March 7.30am-5pm; free). Vintage hearses and mourning regalia in the Funerary Museum near the main entrance illuminate the Hungarian way of death and set the stage for the necropolis. On the far side of the museum, a starkly ugly Pantheon of the Working Class Movement enshrines personages who "Lived for Communism and the People" (some have been removed by relatives since 1989), while Party leader Janos Kadar - who ruled Hungary from 1956 to 1988 - rates a separate tomb, heaped with wreaths from admirers (his reputation has risen in recent years, and there's even talk of a public monument). Further in lie the florid nineteenth-century mausoleums of Kossuth, leader of the 1848 Revolution against the Habsburgs; Count Batthyany, executed for rebellion; and Ferenc Deak, who engineered the Compromise between Hungary and the empire. The great diva Lujza Blaha, the "Nation's Nightingale", is also buried in Kerepesi, as is the confectioner, Gerbeaud. A more recent addition to the roll of honour is Jozsef Antall, the first prime minister of post-Communist Hungary, whose grave was originally marked by a simple cross but now features a large allegorical monument with horses struggling to burst free of a sheet.
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