Less than 1km from the town center, the 20-hectare Hang Duong cemetery is lined with green trees, where the graves of Heroine Martyr Vo Thi Sau and many other patriots and revolutionary soldiers are located.
Hang Duong Cemetery is 20ha wide, seen from above, lined with cool green acacia trees. This is the place where most tourists when present in Con Dao (Ba Ria Vung Tau) visit and offer incense.
The cemetery is the resting place of many patriotic revolutionary soldiers with typical names in history books such as Vo Thi Sau, Le Hong Phong, Cao Van Ngoc, and Nguyen An Ninh.
Here tens of thousands of patriots and revolutionary fighters for generations were imprisoned and sacrificed between 1862 and 1975. In the photo, the legendary female Hero Vo Thi Sau statue in the center of the cemetery.
If you go to Hang Duong Con Dao cemetery on the occasion of the Invalids and Martyrs' Day on July 27 every year, you will see many groups of tourists, groups of agencies and organizations lining up to offer incense to commemorate the heroic spirits. predecessors died in the two resistance wars against France and America.
There are more than 1,900 tombs here divided into 4 zones A, B, C, D, in which area A, B, C are old cemeteries, and D is the area of newly established graves.
The memorial area with many reliefs depicts the cruelty of the French colonial regime more than half a century ago. More than 20,000 people have died from brutal torture.
The bodies of prisoners were buried everywhere inside Hang Duong cemetery at that time.
The area of the grave of martyr Vo Thi Sau is located in zone B of the cemetery. This place often has many tourists visit, burn incense every day. Around the heroine's grave there are always flowers and offerings.
Many tourists, after visiting martyr Vo Thi Sau, put incense in the surrounding tombs to pay their respects to their ancestors.
Of the more than 1,900 graves at Hang Duong Con Dao cemetery, only 713 are identifiable.
The cemetery is open to visitors from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 0:00 a.m. the next morning.
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Update day : 20/07/2023
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