We visited Vienna's Zentralfriendhof yesterday in fittingly bleak and blustery conditions. Opened in 1874 the burial ground is truly vast, almost as large in area as central Vienna, and contains nearly three million graves. Schubert, Brahm's, Strauss' I and II as well as Beethoven are buried here, most have been moved from other cemeteries and neatly placed in a cosy huddle half way down the central garden of worthies. The site contains designated areas for the Catholic, Jewish, Protestant and Russian Orthodox faiths each with their own specific character.
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