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St. Marx Cemetery
Located in Vienna's 3rd district, St. Marx Cemetery (Sankt Marxer Friedhof) is a preserved 18th-century communal burial ground famous worldwide as the final resting place of musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Operating under Josephinian reforms, thousands of Viennese citizens were buried here in unmarked mass graves. Today, overgrown with lilac bushes, mossy tombstones, and weeping angels, the cemetery is renowned for its quiet, melancholic beauty and recurring reports of phantom violin melodies and spectral figures wandering among the graves.