Cimitero delle Porte Sante(The Sacred Doors Cemetery) is amonumental cemeteryinFlorencelocated within the fortifiedbastionof theBasilica of San Miniato al Monte.[1][2][3]
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| Established | 1837 |
| Country | Italy |
| Coordinates | 43°45′32″N11°15′51″E/ 43.758958°N 11.264098°E |
| Find a Grave | Cimitero delle Porte Sante |
History
editThe idea of a burial site nearSan Miniatowas conceived around 1837, although thecamposantowas inaugurated eleven years later, in 1848.
The project, originally entrusted to architectNiccolò Matas(the designer of the facade of theBasilica of Santa Croce), was enlarged and in 1864 Mariano Falcini used the area of the sixteenth-century fortress lying around the church.
The project of the new cemetery grew parallel with the development of the new road network, elaborated by Poggi, which, with the opening of the Colli Boulevard and the monumental staircase, created new ways to access thebasilica.
Notable tombs
editIn addition to manyneo-Gothicarchitectural features, the cemetery holds theburial sitesof many illustrious figures, including:
- Giuseppe Abbati
- Libero Andreotti
- Pietro Annigoni
- Pellegrino Artusi
- Lazar Berman
- Luigi Bertelli(Vamba)
- Alessandro Bonsanti
- Mario Cecchi Gori(with his wife Valeria)
- Anna Maria Chiavacci Leonardi
- Alimondo Ciampi
- Bruno Cicognani
- Carlo Collodi
- Enrico Coveri
- Felice Le Monnier
- Claudio Leonardi
- Guido Manacorda
- Ferruccio Masini
- Lorenzo Orsetti
- Giovanni Papini
- Marietta Piccolomini
- Ermenegildo Pistelli
- Paolo Poli
- Vasco Pratolini
- Rodolfo Marma
- Renzo Ricci
- Brass Roses
- Bruno Rossi
- Gaetano Salvemini
- Tommaso Salvini
- Giorgio Saviane
- Odoardo Spadaro
- Giovanni Spadolini
- Angelo Torchi
- Luigi Ugolini
- Pasquale Villari
- Franco Zeffirelli
Notes
edit- Foresto Niccolai (ed.),The urns of the strong, monuments and burial inscriptions,Coppini Tipografi, Florence, September 1997.
- Valeria Paniccia,Walking in the meadows of eternity,Mursia Editore, 2013
- Aldi there of the Holy Doors – Studies of conservation and restoration of the burial monuments, Florence, Palazzo Spinelli, 2016
External links
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References
edit- ^"Cimitero delle Porte Sante, a settembre i lavori di messa in sicurezza del Bastione a sud-ovest".gonews.it.2017-07-03.Retrieved2017-09-05.
- ^"Riaprono i bastioni al cimitero delle Porte Sante".www.quinewsfirenze.it(in Italian).Retrieved2017-09-05.
- ^"E il cimitero delle Porte Sante diventa Spoon River".La Repubblica.2016-09-11.Retrieved2017-09-05.