Cimitero Monumentale di Milano

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The Famedio entry building

The Cimitero Monumentale in Milan, Italy 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 temples, elaborate obelisks, and other original works such as a scaled-down version of Trajan's Column.

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 Manzoni. In the Palanti Chapel is a monument commemorating the 800 Milanese citizens who were executed in Nazi 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 (1918-1955), Formula One champion driver
Antonio Ascari (1888-1925), Grand Prix champion driver
Ernesto Bazzaro (1859 - 1937), sculptor
Luca Beltrami (1854-1933), architect
Arrigo Boito (1842-1918), composer and Librettist
Carlo Cattaneo (1801-1869), philosopher, patriot
Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893), composer
Walter Chiari (1924-1991), actor
Franco Corelli (1921-2003), opera tenor
Filippo Filippi (1830-1887), journalist, music critic
Eva Duarte de Perón buried as María Maggi, (1919-1952), leader; since 1955 to 1971
Giorgio Gaber (1939-2003), actor, composer, musician
Giuseppe Gervasini (1867-1941), religious figure
Luigi Giussani (1922-2005), Communion and Liberation
Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989), pianist
Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) poet, novelist
Giovanni Pesce (1918-2007), communist partisan
Francesco Maria Piave (1810-1876), librettist, poet
Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886), composer
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968), 1959 Nobel prize in literature
Medardo Rosso (1858-1928), sculptor
Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957), conductor and cellist
Filippo Turati (1857-1932), politician
Bruno Valiani (1907-1998), artist
Leo Valiani (1909-1999), writer, politician