5. Cemeteries – witnesses of the past
Tombs represented prestigious graves and were usually accessible only to church representatives and richer classes of people, while the rest were buried outside. Sacral church areas were therefore arranged around churches, consecrated and enclosed. Only the outlaws, infidels, criminals and those from the lowest social classes were buried outside the church cemetery, in a non-consecrated ground behind the fence.
Cemeteries are also a proof and an indicator of a certain historical period and personalities that left their marks, which the current authority of a place does not always want to highlight. Cemeteries thus become historical witnesses of those parts of the past or personalities who are disruptive for certain social strata in a certain period and can thus help to prevent such periods and personalities from being forgotten.
