Cimitero delle Porte Sante

Yes, an other graveyard, but one you will never have seen the like of. It has a great many personal monuments and it is quite extensive. A fascinating place.

There are many attractive monuments that are not meant to be representative of the dead person, as you see in most graveyards, such as this one.

However here are also many monuments that are personal. They are sculptures or even bronze casts of the dead person. There are several military men. The first one on the left was a general.

There are ladies and gentlemen who died many years ago.

The Cimitero delle Porte Sante was opened in the mid 1800's so most of the monuments are for people who died in the 20th century. You can date many of them by their dress and their appearances, in stone or in bronze.

There are whole roads of family chapels.

Many of the graves have fresh flowers, more so understandably for people who died more recently or for people who died young, sometimes a lot of flowers. However all the graves are very well maintained.

There are couples, full length bronze casts, mother and children.

It is a vast graveyard, there are whole sections we did not even get to.

I end with what seemed to us the most unusual monument. It is for a couple. If I remember well the man, who is shown in uniform, was a pilot in the Italian air force and died in the last war.