List of cemeteries in Italy
- Agira, War Canadian Cemetery
- Cimitero Vantiniano (also known as Vantiniano) in Brescia - is one of the first monumental cemetery built in Italy,[1][2] resting place of the former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Zanardelli
- Bronte, English cemetery Nelson Castle, with the poet's grave William Sharp.
- Caltagirone, Cimitero monumentale di Caltagirone
- Caltanissetta, Cimitero monumentale degli Angeli
- Canicattini Bagni, monumental cemetery of Canicattini Bagni.
- Cimitero monumentale di Catania, tombs of Giovanni Verga, Mario Rapisardi, Antonino Gandolfo, Federico De Roberto, Angelo Musco.
- Catania War Cemetery.
- Cemeteries in Cesena
- Chiavari (Cimitero urbano di Chiavari)
- Corleone, in the municipal cemetery are buried: the Mafia leaders Luciano Liggio, Michele Navarra, Salvatore Riina and the ashes of Bernardo Provenzano, the remains of the trade unionist Placido Rizzotto murdered by the mafia and of the magistrate Cesare Terranova killed by the mafia.
- Monumental Cemetery of Cremona
- Cuneo (Cimitero comunale urbano di Cuneo)
- Faenza (Cimitero dell'Osservanza)
- English Cemetery, Florence - burial site for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Frances Trollope, Theodore Parker and others;
- Lentini, monumental cemetery of Lentini
- Old English Cemetery, Livorno - probably the first Protestant burial ground in Italy, resting place of Tobias Smollett
- Monumental Cemetery of Mantua
- Cimitero monumentale di Messina or "Gran Camposanto"
- English cemetery of Messina, which recalls the visit in 1925 of king George V to Messina
- Cimitero Monumentale in Milan is a very large cemetery that includes the Famedio (Temple of Fame) where Vladimir Horowitz, Alessandro Manzoni, Arturo Toscanini, and others are interred
- Mistretta, monumental cemetery of Mistretta
- English Cemetery, Naples
- Cemetery of Poggioreale, Naples
- Cemetery of the 366 Fossae, Naples
- Palazzolo Acreide, monumental cemetery of Palazzolo Acreide
- Palermo, Catacombe dei Cappuccini
- Cimitero dei Cappuccini(Palermo), there are buried: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, writer, and Pio La Torre, trade unionist and politician, killed by the mafia
- Palermo, Cimitero di Santa Maria dei Rotoli
- Palermo, Cimitero di Sant'Orsola: it was the place where the remains of Giovanni Falcone rested for 23 years, later transferred on 23 June 2015 to the Church of San Domenico; tomb of Fulco di Verdura
- English Cemetery (Palermo)
- Cimitero Acattolico (Palermo, cemetery for non-Catholics)
- Cimitero di Santa Maria di Gesù (Palermo), the magistrate Paolo Borsellino murdered by the mafia is buried here
- Campo Verano, Rome
- Protestant Cemetery, Rome - resting place of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats
- Castagna Cemetery, Sampierdarena, Genoa
- Germanic military cemetery of Motta Sant'Anastasia
- Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno, Genoa—famous for its sepulchral sculpture and architecture
- Fontanelle cemetery in Naples
- Syracuse War Cemetery: British war cemetery
- Non-Catholic Cemetery of Syracuse, in the park of the Paolo Orsi Regional Archaeological Museum: tomb of August von Platen
- Taormina, non-Catholic cemetery, tomb of Wilhelm von Gloeden
- Monumental Cemetery of Turin
- San Michele, Venice - Venice's main cemetery and resting place of Ezra Pound, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev
- Monumental Cemetery of Verona
References[]
- ^ Vanderslice Meeks, Carroll Louis (1966). Italian architecture, 1750-1914. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- ^ "Cimitero Vantiniano" [Vantiniano Cemetery]. touringclub.com (in Italian). Retrieved 29 November 2014.
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