Staglieno Monumental Cemetery
The Staglieno cemetery , the main burial place of Genoa, is the most important monumental cemetery in Europe.
Here are buried illustrious sons of the Ligurian capital and other famous people: Giuseppe Mazzini, Ferruccio Parri, Michele Novaro (composer of the hymn of Italy), many partisans of the expedition of the Thousand, the singer-songwriter Fabrizio De Andrè, the poet Edoardo Sanguineti , Constance Llyoid wife of Oscar Wilde), Nino Bixio, to name a few. More...
Here are buried illustrious sons of the Ligurian capital and other famous people: Giuseppe Mazzini, Ferruccio Parri, Michele Novaro (composer of the hymn of Italy), many partisans of the expedition of the Thousand, the singer-songwriter Fabrizio De Andrè, the poet Edoardo Sanguineti , Constance Llyoid wife of Oscar Wilde), Nino Bixio, to name a few. More...
Waugh, A turist in Africa, London 1960:
"The Cemetery of Genoa, in the full sense of the word, is a bourgeois art museum of the second half of the nineteenth century. The Pere Lachaise (Paris) and The Albert Memorial (London) are nothing compared and their disappearance would not be a serious loss until this collection will exist "
The cemetery was born in mid-century (1835 year of his design arch. Carlo Barabino and later Giovan Battista Resasco) and developed until after the First World War is a real museum in the open sky representative of the ideals and culture of the client bourgeois, rising at that time, interpreted according to the artistic languages of over a century: from bourgeois realism, symbolism to liberty, to the art deco and the twentieth century.
The school of sculptors that was to be formed, whose works have spread well beyond regional and national borders and had commissions from all over the world, includes artists like Santo Varni, Giulio Monteverde, Augusto Rivalta, Lorenzo Orengo, Vittorio Lavezzari up Edoardo De Albertis, Eugenio Baroni and others
The school of sculptors that was to be formed, whose works have spread well beyond regional and national borders and had commissions from all over the world, includes artists like Santo Varni, Giulio Monteverde, Augusto Rivalta, Lorenzo Orengo, Vittorio Lavezzari up Edoardo De Albertis, Eugenio Baroni and others