Campo Santo, Ghent

The Campo Santo of Ghent, Belgium, is a famous Roman Catholic public burial ground in Sint-Amandsberg.

On top of the hill 19 m , the bishop Philips Erard van der Noot erected in 1720 a chapel, in baroques style in honour of Saint Amandus.

The cemetery was opened on 8 December 1847 by Fr Jozef van Damme, the local parish priest.

As of 2016 this is still the burial place of famous Catholic artists, nobility and politicians from Ghent.

Not only are some of those who are buried here noteworthy, but also some of the gravestones are the works of famous sculptors or craftsmen such as Jozef Geefs, Aloïs de Beule and Geo Verbanck.