Outside each of the entrances there are to be found candle and flower sellers throughout the year. Usually this amounts to one stall or kiosk at each of the small entrances and about half a dozen at the main entrance on Lipowa street. To visit a cemetary in Poland at this time of the year is to see an amazing sight as the paths are as busy as a town high street on a saturday morning. People also come to put candles in front of the monuments, and popular ones like the one commemorating the November Uprising can have hundreds of candles at any one time. This is by far the largest part of the cemetary and is so full of stone graves, crosses etc, that it can be difficult to get to some of the graves in the centre of each lot.
Most graves consist of a stone slab with a headstone or cross.
Some have monuments of angels or small towers and some are quite large. All Saints Day on the 1st of November and All Souls Day on the 2nd of November are an important part of the Roman Catholic calendar with regard to cemetaries. At this point I will note that those of the Orthodox faith have a similar date in the early spring, where they put food and candles on the graves, but I am not familiar with the faith beyond knowing that. All Souls is the one day in which people will try and get back to their ancestoral land and try and visit as many graves as possible, usually organising within the family who goes to what cemetary so that no one gets forgotten. During the days and nights of the holiday itself, people try to get around and visit as many of the graves as they can, leaving at least one candle on each.