Cimetière du Nord, Historic cemetery in Rennes, France.

Cimetière du Nord is a landscaped burial ground of 8 to 9 hectares in Rennes's Saint-Martin district, with 14,000 plots in 16 sections and roughly 100,000 burials. Its single entrance is a circular neo-classical structure by Charles Millardet: a brick and limestone base pierced by an east-west passage, eight vaults around a horseshoe stair, and a domed tempietto chapel ringed by Tuscan columns of kersanton stone.

This cemetery was established in 1794, following a royal order from 1776 that required burial grounds to move outside city limits. The relocation came from health concerns that were pressing in that era.

The entrance gate with its Tuscan columns shapes how visitors first experience this place. The 1828 architecture shows how Rennes wanted to express dignity and order in its burial grounds.

The grounds are open during regular hours for visitors and are located near the northern residential areas. Guided tours are available to learn about the local history through the people buried here.

Visitors place bottle caps on Canon Joseph Thébault's grave in a custom whose origin remains mysterious. Others collect soil from Dame Philippe Hélène de Coëtlogon's resting place, using it for folk remedies.