Cemetery As the first and last garden, the cemetery occupies a special position within the typologies, whereby the different cemetery cultures express a great deal about the specific understanding of nature and the social conditions. Overloaded with the projections of the surviving members of the family, the cemetery is a place of tremendous density. Northern cemeteries are traditionally woodland resting-places, whereas Mediterranean graveyards are reminiscent of built cities. They are a different city, the city of the dead.