In the nineteenth century, a classical arcade structure was erected in the eastern corner of the cemetery next to the Church of St. Christopher in Ljubljana. Based on the studies of the newly discovered original design of the Arcades drawn by Franc Pollak, textual archival materials, historical photographs, as well as the results of sounding studies and a spatial analysis, it has been concluded that the Ljubljana Arcades, albeit never fully completed, were one of the earliest monumental cemetery designs in the Habsburg Monarchy. They were conceived by declaratively following the example of Italian monumental cemeteries underscored by the campo santo motif. The research has shown how during the renovation conducted within the framework of redesigning a part of the abandoned cemetery into the Navje Memorial Park, the architect Jože Plečnik reshaped the arcade structure with several architectural and visual interventions and adapted it to the modified spatial context.