Highgate Cemetery
London has also lots of sloping sides. They are hard to see, if one takes the city once more under the microscope… Deathly silence on the Highgate Cemetery who seeks the eerie beauty of London sights, she finds on the Highgate East cemetery and the Highgate West cemetery. Here rest the remains of the great history. In the cemetery are the graves of writers such as George Elliot and Douglas Adams and also that of the scientist Michael Faraday and that of the man of who most likely served as a template for the evil Dr. Moriarty, the designated nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. The most famous Tomb on the Highgate is probably on the resting place of Karl Marx.
Above, a huge bust of his head with the flowing beard typical for him is on a monument. Almost an impossibility is to miss the Tomb. Funnily enough there are always loyalty Marxists who want to shell out half a fortune to be sure to find the final resting place next to the man, of the decline of the capitalist economic system predicted. Marx’s grave is located at the East cemetery. During the opening hours you can visit at any time him. In contrast, a visit to the West cemetery not easily is possible.
The only way leads through a guided tour. Creepy from the operating table: the old operating theatre the medicine in earlier days benefited not least about his downfall. This is nowhere more evident than in the old operating theatre. The Museum revolves all around the surgery of the 18th and 19th centuries. One could easily confuse the rare exhibits with a detailed collection of torture instruments. Even the rust is crumbling by the monstrosities of iron. Almost, you might think they were originally designed for the torturers at the Court of the King, and not for the hand of a surgeon.
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