[1][2][3][4] The cemetery is composed of mausoleums, temporary and perpetual graves, crypts, ossuaries and columbaria.

Also noteworthy are the Crypt of Combatants of the Great War and the Memorial of the Tarrafal concentration camp victims.

It was originally named Cemitério Oriental de Lisboa (Eastern Cemetery of Lisbon).

[1][4] The country's first crematorium was built here in 1925, but would eventually cease to operate for political and religious reasons in 1936.

There have already been cremated several public figures such as José Saramago, Nobel Literature laureate and Álvaro Cunhal, anti-fascist politician and minister in the first four provisional governments after the Carnation Revolution.