CIMITERO MONUMENTALE DI STAGLIENO
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Cemetery located in Genoa, a real open-air museum.
One of the largest and most important cemeteries in Europe, Staglieno's grandiose appearance bears witness to a bourgeois society in the midst of the European ruling classes. Built on a 160-hectare site between 1844 and 1860 in what was then an outlying district of the city, now overtaken by modern urbanism, the cemetery now adjoins the northern edge of Genoa.
Nestled among the trees on the hillside, with its flower beds, statues and formidable family chapels, it's a veritable open-air museum in which to wander for an entire day. Sometimes, if the wandering is prolonged, a feeling of oppression can arise, so impressive is the massiveness of the sculptures, as is the accumulation of dark dust...
Along the endless monumental galleries, artistic languages are expressed with great intensity over more than a century, from neoclassicism to neorealism to Liberty style (Italian Art Deco). The expressiveness of the tomb sculptures and the elaborate architectural structures of the chapels reveal to visitors a sensibility that almost transcends the artistic sphere. Among the most famous figures to be laid to rest in this Italian Père Lachaise (in much more monumental form) are the tomb of Giuseppe Mazzini (one of the fathers of Italian unification), that of Fabrizio De André, the famous Genoese singer, and even that of a Caterina, a hazelnut seller...
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