The Cimitero Monumentale ("

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") is one of the two largest cemeteries in

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, the other one being the

Cimitero Maggiore The Cimitero Maggiore di Milano ("Greater Cemetery of Milan"), also known as Cimitero di Musocco ("Musocco Cemetery"), is the largest cemetery of Milan, Italy. It is located in Zone 8, in the Musocco district (formerly a ''comune'' of its own), ...

. It is noted for the abundance of artistic tombs and monuments. Designed by the architect

Carlo Maciachini Carlo Francesco Maciachini (sometimes spelled Maciacchini; 2 April 1818 – 10 June 1899) was an Italian architect and restorer. Born near Varese, he studied in Milan, where he also realized some of his most important works, most notably the Monum ...

(1818–1899), it was planned to consolidate a number of small cemeteries that used to be scattered around the city into a single location. Officially opened in 1866, it has since then been filled with a wide range of contemporary and classical Italian sculptures as well as

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s, elaborate

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s, and other original works such as a scaled-down version of the

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. Many of the tombs belong to noted industrialist dynasties, and were designed by artists such as

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, Floriano Bodini, and

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. The main entrance is through the large Famedio, a massive ''Hall of Fame''-like Neo-Medieval style building made of

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and stone that contains the tombs of some of the city's and the country's most honored citizens, including that of novelist

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. The

Civico Mausoleo Palanti The Edicola Palanti inside the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano, work by architect Mario Palanti built in 1924–28, become ''Civico Mausoleo'' to honorable citizens of Milan in on 4 February 1981. Famous graves inside are: Hermann Einstein, Walter C ...

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is a tomb built for meritorious "Milanesi", or citizens of Milan. The memorial of about 800 Milanese killed in Nazi concentration camps is located in the center and is the work of the group

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, formed by leading exponents of Italian rationalist architecture that included Gianluigi Banfi. The cemetery has a special section for those who do not belong to the Catholic religion and a

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section. Near the entrance there is a permanent exhibition of prints, photographs, and maps outlining the cemetery's historical development. It includes two battery-operated electric hearses built in the 1920s.

The Jewish Section

The section, designned by

, opened in 1872 to replace the cemeteries of Porta Tenaglia, Porta Magenta, and Porta Vercellina. It lies east of the Catholic cemetery and has a separate entrance. The area is the result of a 1913 expansione to the southern and east. The central building was originally the entrance to the cemetery. Tomb numbering is repeated because the cemetery is divided into six fields and an addition in the eastern side. There are also three common fields, including one for children, where burials date from 1873 to 1894, with small gravestones on the ground bearing the names and dates of death. The monuments, built from 1866 onward, are located along the walkways. There are also family shrines, two of which were designed by Maciachini, columbaria, and ossuaries along the northern and western cemetery walls and burials in the central building. There are 1778 burials, some in memory of people killed by in Nazi concentration camps or in the

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, including at Meina. There are many monuments of artistic value built by important architects and sculptors, described in the guide book by Giovanna Ginex and Ornella Selvafolta . Jewishsectioncimiteromonunentalemilano

The following architects have worked in the Jewish section:

(Davide Leonino and Pisa shrines), Giovanni Battista Bossi (Anselmo de Benedetti tomb), Ercole Balossi Merlo (Leon David Levi shrine),

Luigi Conconi Luigi Conconi (Milan, 1852–1917) was an Italian painter, who is considered part of the Scapigliatura movement. Biography Luigi Conconi graduated from the Milan Polytechnic in 1874 and started work as an architect, a career that he combined f ...

(Segre shrine), Giovanni Ceruti (Vitali shrine), Carlo Meroni (Taranto tomb), Cesare Mazzocchi (Giulio Foligno shrine), Manfredo d'Urbino (Jarach shrine, Mayer tomb, Besso tomb, Monument to the Jewish Martyrs of Nazism), Gigiotti Zanini (Zanini tomb), Adolfo Valabrega (Moisé Foligno shrine), Luigi Perrone (Goldfinger shrine). Sculptors whose work is found here include: Mario Quadrelli (Pisa shrine), Giuseppe Daniele Benzoni (Ottolenghi Finzi tomb), Luigi Vimercati (Estella Jung tomb), Agostino Caravati (Alessandro Forti tomb), Rizzardo Galli (Vittorio Finzi tomb),

Enrico Cassi Enrico Cassi (December 1863 – 12 February 1913) was an Italian sculptor. Biography He was born in Varese. His father was a marble worker in Pavia, was able to have Enrico study sculpting at the Brera Academy under Francesco Barzaghi and En ...

(De Daninos tomb), Attilio Prendoni (Errera and Conforti tomb), Eduardo Ximenes (Treves shrine), Giulio Branca (Giovanni Norsa tomb), fratelli Bonfanti (Davide and Beniamino Foà tomb), Enrico Astorri (Carolina Padova and Fanny Levi Cammeo tomb), Egidio Boninsegna (Giuseppe Levi tomb), Dario Viterbo (Levi Minzi columbarium),

Giannino Castiglioni Giannino Castiglioni (4 May 1884 – 27 August 1971) was an Italian sculptor and medallist. He worked mostly in monumental and funerary sculpture; his style was representational, and far from the modernist and avant-garde trends of the earl ...

(Ettore Levis and Goldfinger tombs),

(Cesare Sarfatti tomb), Eugenio Pellini (Bettino Levi tomb), Arrigo Minerbi (Renato del Mar tomb), Roberto Terracini (Nino Colombo tomb). The central building was enhanced in May 2015 with artistic windows that represent the

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by the artist Diego Pennacchio Ardemagni.

Crematorium

The cemetery contains the Crematorium Temple, which was the first

crematorium A crematorium or crematory is a venue for the cremation of the dead. Modern crematoria contain at least one cremator (also known as a crematory, retort or cremation chamber), a purpose-built furnace. In some countries a crematorium can also be ...

to open in the

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. The crematorium opened in 1876 and was operational until 1992. The building is also a

columbarium A columbarium (; pl. columbaria) is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns, holding cremated remains of the deceased. The term can also mean the nesting boxes of pigeons. The term comes from the Latin "'' colu ...

.Encyclopedia of Cremation by Lewis H. Mates (p. 21-23) As with other early crematoria in Italy, it was built in

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Famous graves

Signals located throughout the cemetery point visitors to several of the most remarkable tombs and monuments. Some of the persons interred in the cemetery include: *

Alberto Ascari Alberto Ascari (; 13 July 1918 – 26 May 1955) was an Italian racing driver and a two time Formula One World Champion. He was a multitalented racer who competed in motorcycle racing before switching to cars. Ascari won consecutive world titles ...

(1918–1955),

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champion driver *

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(1888–1925),

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champion driver *

Gae Aulenti Gaetana "Gae" Aulenti (; 4 December 1927–31 October 2012) was an Italian architect and designer who was active in furniture design, graphic design, stage design, lighting design, exhibition and interior design. She was known for her contributi ...

(1927–2012), architect *

Lelio Basso Lelio Basso (25 December 1903 – 16 December 1978) was an Italian democratic socialist politician, political scientist and journalist. Early life Lelio Basso was born in Varazze (in the province of Savona) into a Liberal bourgeois family. In ...

(1903–1978), politician *

Ernesto Bazzaro Ernesto Bazzaro (29 May 1859, Milan – 18 May 1937, Milan) was an Italian sculptor. Biography Like his elder brother, Leonardo, Ernesto Bazzaro studied at the Brera Academy in Milan, which he attended from 1875, winning the Luigi Canonica P ...

(1859–1937), sculptor *

Luca Beltrami Luca Beltrami (November 13, 1854 – August 8, 1933) was an Italian architect and architectural historian, known particularly for restoration projects. Biography Beltrami was born in Milan. He was initially a student at the Politecnico in Mila ...

(1854–1933), architect *

Antonio Bernocchi Antonio Bernocchi (17 January 1859 – 8 December 1930) was an Italian industrialist, who built up a successful textile factory at Legnano, in Lombardy. Life Bernocchi was born on 17 January 1859 at Castellanza in the province of Varese, in ...

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Arrigo Boito Arrigo Boito (; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) (whose original name was Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito and who wrote essays under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Tobia Gorrio) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best ...

(1842–1918), composer, librettist *

Camillo Boito Camillo Boito (; 30 October 1836 – 28 June 1914) was an Italian architect and engineer, and a noted art critic, art historian and novelist. Biography Boito was born in Rome, the son of an Italian painter of miniatures. His mother was of Poli ...

(1836–1914), architect *

Gino Bramieri Gino Bramieri (; 21 June 1928 – 18 June 1996) was an Italian comedian and actor. He was especially known as a television comedian, but also performed in theatres, on radio, and in about thirty movies. He was nicknamed "Il Re della barzelletta ...

(1928–1996), comedian and actor *

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(1930–2009), journalist *

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(1954–2016), entrepreneur, political activist *

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(1801–1869), philosopher, patriot *

Alfredo Catalani Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas ''Loreley'' (1890) and ''La Wally'' (1892). ''La Wally'' was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's ...

(1854–1893), composer *

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(1911–1997), editor, writer *

Walter Chiari Walter Annicchiarico (8 March 1924 – 20 December 1991), known as Walter Chiari , was an Italian stage and screen actor, mostly in comedy roles. Biography Walter Annicchiarico was born in Verona, Italy on 8 March 1924 to a family originally ...

(1924–1991), actor *

Franco Corelli Franco Corelli (8 April 1921 – 29 October 2003) was an Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976. Associated in particular with the spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian repertory, he was cel ...

(1921–2003), opera tenor *

Valentina Cortese Valentina Cortese (1 January 1923 – 10 July 2019) was an Italian actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in François Truffaut's ''Day for Night'' (1973). Personal life Cortese was bor ...

(1923–2019), actress *

Philippe Daverio Philippe Daverio (17 October 1949 – 2 September 2020) was an Italian art historian, gallerist, teacher, writer, author, politician, and television personality. Biography Daverio was born in Mulhouse, Alsace in 1949 from an Italian father, bu ...

(1949–2020), art historian *

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(1926–1972), publisher, businessman *

Filippo Filippi Filippo Filippi (13 January 1830 – 24 June 1887) was an Italian music critic. He wrote for the Milanese music magazine ''La perseveranza'', and was an admirer of and a frequent correspondent with Giuseppe Verdi. He was born in Vicenza, and rece ...

(1830–1887), journalist, music critic *

Dario Fo Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. I ...

(1926–2016), 1997

Nobel prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

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(1936–2021), ballet dancer *

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(1939–2003), singer-songwriter, comedian *

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(1929–2014), jazz pianist, composer, conductor *

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(1922–2005), priest, founder of "Communion and Liberation" *

Paolo Grassi Paolo Grassi (30 October 1919 – 14 March 1981) was an Italian theatrical impresario. Grassi was born in Milan, Italy. As a young man, he worked in magazines and discovered a passion for the theater. It led him in 1937 to create a Bertoldissimo ...

(1919–1981), theatrical impresario *

Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez (; 10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and ...

(1791–1882), painter *

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(1903–1989), pianist *

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(1870–1916), founder of

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football club *

Anna Kuliscioff Anna Kuliscioff (; rus, Анна Кулишёва, , ˈanːə kʊlʲɪˈʂovə; born Anna Moiseyevna Rozenshtein, ; 9 January 1857 – 27 December 1925) was a Russian-Italian revolutionary of Jewish origin, a prominent feminist, an anarchist in ...

(1857–1925), political activist *

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(1815–1878), painter *

Enzo Jannacci Vincenzo Jannacci (3 June 1935 – 29 March 2013), more commonly known as Enzo Jannacci (), was an Italian singer-songwriter, pianist, actor and comedian. He is regarded as one of the most important artists in the post-war Italian music scene. ...

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(1859–1932), painter *

(1818–1899), architect *

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(1932–2016), football player *

(1785–1873), poet, novelist, considered the founder of modern Italian language; tomb located at the very center of the ''Famedio'' *

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(1876–1944), poet and main founder of the

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movement *

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Alda Merini Alda Merini (21 March 1931, in Milan – 1 November 2009, in Milan) was an Italian writer and poet. Her work earned the attention and the admiration of other Italian writers, such as Giorgio Manganelli, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Pier Paolo Pasolini ...

(1931–2009), poet *

Lina Merlin Angelina "Lina" Merlin (15 October 1887 – 16 August 1979) was an Italian politician, perhaps best known for authoring and promoting the so-called " Merlin law" which abolished state-regulated prostitution in Italy. She was also an activist ...

(1887–1979), politician *

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(1950–1994), fashion designer *

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(1907–1998), artist *

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(1910–2014), opera soprano * Wanda Osiris (1905–1994), soubrette, actress, singer *

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(1881–1946), painter *

(1885–1978), architect *

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(1918–2007), communist partisan *

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(1810–1878), writer *

Francesco Maria Piave Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 18105 March 1876) was an Italian opera librettist who was born in Murano in the lagoon of Venice, during the brief Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. Career Piave's career spanned over twenty years working with many of th ...

(1810–1876), librettist, poet *

(1930–2002), artist *

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(1834–1886), composer *

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(1901–1968), 1959 Nobel prize in Literature *

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(1858–1928), sculptor *

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(1826–1880) and his wife

Angiolina Ortolani-Tiberini Angiolina Ortolani-Tiberini (10 May 1834 – 31 December 1913) was an Italian soprano who sang many leading roles in European opera houses during a career spanning over twenty years. After their marriage in 1858, her career was closely entwined w ...

(1834–1913), opera singers. *

Arturo Toscanini Arturo Toscanini (; ; March 25, 1867January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orch ...

(1867–1957), conductor and cellist *

Giovanni Treccani Giovanni Treccani (; 3 January 1877 – 6 July 1961) was an Italian textile industrialist, publisher and cultural patron. He sponsored the Giovanni Treccani Institute, established 18 February 1925 to publish the ''Enciclopedia Italiana'' (cur ...

(1877–1961), publisher *

Filippo Turati Filippo Turati (; 26 November 1857 – 29 March 1932) was an Italian sociologist, criminologist, poet and socialist politician. Early life Born in Canzo, province of Como, he graduated in law at the University of Bologna in 1877, and participa ...

(1857–1932), politician *

Leo Valiani Leo Valiani (''Weiczen Leó''; 9 February 1909 – 18 September 1999) was an Italian historian, politician and journalist. Early life Valiani was born in ''Fiume'' (now Rijeka), on the Adriatic Sea (then in Hungarian part of Austria-Hungar ...

(1909–1999), writer, politician *

(1868–1931), sculptor Mayors of Milan * Aldo Aniasi (1921–2005), Mayor (1967–1976) *

Giulio Belinzaghi Giulio Belinzaghi (17 October 1818 – 28 August 1892) was an Italian politician. He was mayor of Cernobbio, Province of Como, Lombardy (1864–1868). He was twice mayor of Milan (1867–1884, 1889–1892). He served in the Senate of the Kingdom ...

(1818–1892), Mayor (1867–1884; 1889–1892) *

Emilio Caldara Emilio Caldara (20 January 1868 – 31 October 1942) was an Italian Socialist Party politician. He was also a member of the Unitary Socialist Party. He was mayor of Milan. See also *Mayor of Milan The mayor of Milan ( it, sindaco di Mi ...

(1868–1942), Mayor (1914–1920) *

Gino Cassinis Gino Cassinis (27 January 1885 – 13 January 1964) was an Italian Democratic Socialist Party politician. He was born in Milan. He was mayor of Milan. He was knight grand cross and grand officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. H ...

(1885–1964), Mayor (1961–1964) *

Virgilio Ferrari Virgilio Ferrari (9 March 1888 – 12 June 1975) was an Italian Democratic Socialist Party politician. He was mayor of Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most po ...

(1888–1975), Mayor (1951–1961) *

Angelo Filippetti Angelo Filippetti (1866–1936) was an Italian Socialist Party politician and esperantist. He was mayor of Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city ...

(1866–1936), Mayor (1920–1922) * Marco Formentini (1930–2021), Mayor (1993–1997) *

Emanuele Greppi Emanuele Greppi (27 November 1853 – 9 January 1931), 6th Count of Bussero and Corneliano was an Italian lawyer, politician and historian who served as the Mayor of Milan from 1911 to 1913. He also served in the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy. ...

(1853–1931), Mayor (1911–1914) *

Carlo Tognoli Carlo Tognoli (16 June 1938 – 5 March 2021) was an Italian politician, who was Mayor of Milan and minister of the Italian Republic. Biography Tognoli was born at Milan and joined the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano, or PS ...

(1938–2021), Mayor (1976–1986)

Gallery

File:Edicola Bernocchi.jpg, Mausoleum of

(1930s) File:Campari Family. Ph Ivan Stesso.jpg, The Last Supper,

Campari Campari () is an Italian alcoholic liqueur, considered an apéritif (20.5%, 21%, 24%, 25%, or 28.5% ABV, depending on the country where it is sold), obtained from the infusion of herbs and fruit (including chinotto and cascarilla) in alcohol and ...

family tomb File:Arturo Toscanini grave Milan 2015.jpg,

's tomb File:Il Monumento al monumentale 10.jpg, Morgagni family monument File:Cimitero Monumentale (Milan)Oktober2016 - 5.jpg, Cemetery section from above

Other famous graves

File:Dario Fo Franca Rame Grave.JPG,

and

File:Francesco Hayez grave Milan 2015.jpg,

File:Bob Noorda grave Milan 2015.jpg,

File:Giuseppe Meazza grave Milan 2015.jpg,

File:Salvatore Quasimodo grave Milan 2015.jpg,

File:Alda Merini grave Milan 2015.jpg,

File:Giorgio Gaber grave Milan 2015.jpg,

File:Enzo Jannacci grave Milan 2015.jpg,

References

External links

Video with photos from cemetery
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