Maieri Cemetery (Cimitirul Maieri)

Maieri Cemetery in Alba Iulia is a place of rest for both ordinary people and notable personalities of the city. It is located in the south-eastern corner of the citadel. In the Maieri cemetery are located the funerary monuments of some of the personalities involved in the Union of Transylvania with Romania: Florian Medrea, Commander of the National Guard in Alba Iulia which provided protection during the National Assembly on December 1st, 1918; his brother, Dominic Medrea, who organized the sanitary service for the same event; Samoilă Mârza, known as "Union's photographer", the only person carrying a camera from the 100,000 Romanians who came to Alba Iulia on December 1, 1918, and who therefore left images of the Union; Ion Arion, "the martyr of the Union", who was shot dead at the railway station in Teiuș on November 30th, 1918, while he was coming to attend the Great Assembly in Alba Iulia; Camil Velican