Tag: necropolises of Greek culture
Colma; a city with more graves than houses
Colma City, near San Francisco in the United States, is the city of the dead rather than the living. About 1.5 million bodies are buried here in 17 cemeteries. The total population of Colma City, which includes San Matteo County, California, is only 2,000. The motto of the people of Colma, who have more graves than houses, is ‘It’s great to be alive in Colma’. Space constraints were one of the biggest problems San Francisco faced during its development as a metropolis. California authorities banned cremation within the city limits as early as 1900. The plague that broke out at ... Read more