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The cemeteries of the capital are waiting for the memorials with an extended opening hours from Thursday, this year the joint commemorations of the Budapest Funeral Institute will be lost due to the coronavirus epidemic on All Saints’ Day and the Dead.
The public cemeteries of the capital will be open from October 29 to November 2 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
From the opening on October 31 until the closing on November 2, car traffic is prohibited in cemeteries, with the exception of the new Rákoskeresztúr public cemetery, where you can enter for free during this time. Here, minibuses help to move: vehicles can be boarded between 8:00 and 17:00.
According to the Budapest Funeral Institute, the cemetery offices are open from 8 am to 6 pm from Thursday to Monday, due to the epidemic, the use of a mask and hand sanitizer is mandatory. As many people as active customer counters can be in the customer area at the same time, outside the waiting distance of one and a half to two meters must be maintained.
The Budapest Transport Center will launch several flights on Thursdays and Fridays on some lines to facilitate access to the cemeteries.
On Saturdays and Sundays, the larger vehicles circulate the lines of the cemeteries, the flights follow more frequently, and the extraordinary flights from the cemetery also help the visitors to the cemeteries.
November 1 is All Saints’ Day, November 2 is the Day of the Dead in the Christian world. All Saints in the Catholic Church is a day of remembrance for all saved souls, Protestants commemorate the dead at those times. The Day of the Dead gradually changed from a church festival to a commemoration of the dead.
(Top image: Tombstone at the Farkasréti Cemetery in Budapest on the Day of the Dead on November 2, 2019. Photo: Zoltán Balogh / MTI)
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