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Cimitero Monumentale in
MilanMilan in Italy, is the capital of the region of Lombardia and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while the urban area is the fifth largest in the E.U. with an estimated population of 4.3 million...
,
ItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
is a very large cemetery located on the square given its name, Piazzale del Cimitero Monumentale. Near the heart of Milan, the cemetery was designed by the architect Carlo Maciachini (1818-1899). It opened in 1866 and since then has been filled with a wide range of both contemporary and classical Italian sculptures as well as
Greek templeGreek temples were structures built to house deity statues within Greek sanctuaries in Greek paganism. The temples themselves did usually not directly serve a cult purpose, since the sacrifices and rituals dedicated to the respective deity took place outside them...
s, elaborate
obeliskAn obelisk is a tall, narrow, four-sided, tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape at the top...
s, and other original works such as a scaled-down version of
Trajan's ColumnTrajan's Column is a monument in Rome raised in honour of the Roman emperor Trajan and probably constructed under the supervision of the architect Apollodorus of Damascus at the order of the Roman Senate. It is located in Trajan's Forum, built near the Quirinal Hill, north of the Roman Forum...
.
The main entrance is through the large
Famedio (Temple of Fame), a massive Neo-Medieval style building of marble and stone that serves as the tomb for some of the country's most honored citizens including
Alessandro ManzoniAlessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni was an Italian poet and novelist.He is famous for the novel The Betrothed, one of the major works of Italian literature.-Biography:...
. In the Palanti Chapel is a monument commemorating the 800 Milanese citizens who were executed in
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concentration camps. The cemetery has a special section for non-members of the Roman Catholic faith.
Some of the personages interred here include:
- Alberto Ascari
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champion driver
- Antonio Ascari
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(1888-1925), Grand Prix champion driver
- Ernesto Bazzaro (1859 - 1937), sculptor
- Luca Beltrami
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(1854-1933), architect
- Arrigo Boito
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(1842-1918), composer and Librettist
- Carlo Cattaneo
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(1801-1869), philosopher, patriot
- Alfredo Catalani
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(1854-1893), composer
- Walter Chiari
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(1924-1991), actor
- Franco Corelli
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(1921-2003), opera tenor
- Filippo Filippi
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(1830-1887), journalist, music critic
- Eva Duarte de Perón buried as María Maggi, (1919-1952), leader; since 1955 to 1971
- Giorgio Gaber
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(1939-2003), singer-songwriter, comedian
- Giuseppe Gervasini (1867-1941), religious figure
- Luigi Giussani
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(1922-2005), priest, founder of "Communion and Liberation"
- Vladimir Horowitz
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(1903-1989), pianist
- Alessandro Manzoni
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(1785-1873) poet, novelist, considered the founder of modern Italian language
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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(1876-1944), poet and main founder of the futuristFuturism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere...
movement
- Giovanni Pesce (1918-2007), communist partisan
- Francesco Maria Piave
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(1810-1876), librettist, poet
- Amilcare Ponchielli
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(1834-1886), composer
- Salvatore Quasimodo
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(1901-1968), 1959 Nobel prize in literature
- Medardo Rosso
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(1858-1928), sculptor
- Temistocle Solera
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(1815-1878), poet, opera composer, librettist
- Arturo Toscanini
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(1867-1957), conductor and cellist
- Filippo Turati
Filippo Turati was an Italian sociologist, poet and Socialist politician.-Early life:Born in Canzo, province of Como, he graduated in law at the University of Bologna in 1877, and participated in the Scapigliatura movement with the most important artists of the period in Milan, publishing poetry...
(1857-1932), politician
- Bruno Munari
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(1907-1998), artist
- Leo Valiani
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(1909-1999), writer, politician
See also
- Certosa di Bologna
The Certosa di Bologna is a former Carthusian monastery which was founded in 1334 and suppressed in 1797. In 1801 it became the city’s Monumental Cemetery which would be much praised by Byron and others...
, the site of the city’s monumental cemetery
- Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno
The Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno is an extensive cemetery located on a hillside in Genoa, Italy, famous for its monumental sculpture. Covering an area of more than a square kilometre, it one of the largest cemeteries in Europe....
, in Genoa
- List of famous cemeteries