Cemetery Staglieno is one of the largest in Europe and one of the most famous in the world.
Located on the slope of a steep hill it is famous for its tombstones, which had a hand in the best sculptors of the late nineteenth century.
Today I invite you for a walk around this amazing cemetery you. Throw away all your prejudices, come with me. But Shhh, don’t Wake the sleepers!.. No comment.
Stalino — it’s about the ritual symbolism at the junction of academism and realism: small folds of clothing on the marble statues, frills and lace, hairstyle, gestures, facial expressions — all this passed with such precision that can not fail to impress. The cemetery is more like a small city, there is even a bus route that connects different parts. Centre of the necropolis — a miniature of the Pantheon, surrounded by covered galleries. From them the road winds along the steep slope of the hill on her both sides — the crypts. Only in the cemetery about 2 million graves. Rare powerful family in Genoa has no graves here, and some of the names found on local gravestones have long since become household names.
Today Stalino — quiet and uncrowded location on the outskirts of Genoa. Here does not bring a tour group. Yeah right — no need to disturb the rest of the departed. In such places you need to walk alone. At different times, came guy de Maupassant and Friedrich Nietzsche, mark TWAIN and Elizabeth of Bavaria, Ilya Repin and Anton Chekhov.
