Because it is situated outside the perimeter of the Unesco heritage site and sandwiched between a laboratory and a car park, within the confines of Albi hospital, it is rarely visited and falling into disrepair.
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The site belongs to the hospital, which is reluctant to spend its budget on the disused cemetery and the city already has many important monuments to keep up. So it is left to volunteers with their buckets and brushes to remove the ivy and clean the moss from the sepulchres of the city and department's famous families, including Laperouse and Toulouse-Lautrec. Ironically only the magnificent cypress trees around the site are classified and cannot be managed despite the damage their roots are doing to the cemetery. The benevoles are hoping to get the site classified in order to obtain funding for their restoration work,
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