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List Of Cemeteries In Italy
* Agira, War Canadian Cemetery * Cimitero Vantiniano (also known as ''Vantiniano'') in Brescia – is one of the first monumental cemetery built in Italy, resting place of the former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Zanardelli * Bronte, English cemetery Nelson Castle, with the poet's grave William Sharp. * Caltagirone, Cimitero monumentale di Caltagirone * Caltanissetta, Cimitero monumentale degli Angeli * Canicattini Bagni, monumental cemetery of Canicattini Bagni. * Cimitero monumentale di Catania, tombs of Giovanni Verga, Mario Rapisardi, Antonino Gandolfo, Federico De Roberto, Angelo Musco. * Catania War Cemetery. * Cemeteries in Cesena * Chiavari (Cimitero urbano di Chiavari) * Corleone, in the municipal cemetery are buried: the Mafia leaders Luciano Liggio, Michele Navarra, Salvatore Riina and the ashes of Bernardo Provenzano, the remains of the trade unionist Placido Rizzotto murdered by the mafia and of the magistrate Cesare Terranova killed by the mafia. * Monumenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agira
Agira (; Sicilian language, Sicilian: ''Aggira'', grc, Ἀγύριον) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Enna, Sicily (southern Italy). It is located in the mid-valley of the River Salso River, Salso, from Enna. Until 1861 it was called San Filippo d'Argiriò, in honour of its saint Philip of Agira. The modern city overlies the ancient one of which few traces remain. History Agira stands on the site of the ancient Sicels, Sicel city of ''Agyrion'' ( grc, Ἀγύριον - Agyrion), or ''Agyrium'', and ''Agyrina'', On the top of the mountain where the castle stands, excavations have brought to light buildings dated between the sixth and fourth centuries BC with the presence of polychrome plaster and remains of the mint for coins. Diodorus Siculus was born here and credits Heracles with the foundation of ''Temenos, sacred precincts'' of Iolaus and of Geryon, and the creation of a nearby lake. In the mid-fifth century, Agyrium was the first Sicilian city to mint br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |