• Source: Cimitero delle Porte Sante

Cimitero delle Porte Sante (The Sacred Doors Cemetery) is a monumental cemetery in Florence located within the fortified bastion of the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte.




History


The idea of a burial site near San Miniato was conceived around 1837, although the camposanto was inaugurated eleven years later, in 1848.
The project, originally entrusted to architect Niccolò Matas (the designer of the facade of the Basilica of Santa Croce), was enlarged and in 1864 Mariano Falcini used the area of the sixteenth-century fortress lying around the church.
The project of the new cemetery grew parallel with the development of the new road network, elaborated by Poggi, which, with the opening of the Colli Boulevard and the monumental staircase, created new ways to access the basilica.




Notable tombs


In addition to many neo-Gothic architectural features, the cemetery holds the burial sites of many illustrious figures, including:

Giuseppe Abbati
Libero Andreotti
Pietro Annigoni
Pellegrino Artusi
Lazar Berman
Luigi Bertelli (Vamba)
Alessandro Bonsanti
Mario Cecchi Gori (with his wife Valeria)
Anna Maria Chiavacci Leonardi
Alimondo Ciampi
Bruno Cicognani
Carlo Collodi
Enrico Coveri
Felice Le Monnier
Claudio Leonardi
Guido Manacorda
Ferruccio Masini
Lorenzo Orsetti
Giovanni Papini
Marietta Piccolomini
Ermenegildo Pistelli
Paolo Poli
Vasco Pratolini
Rodolfo Marma
Renzo Ricci
Brass Roses
Bruno Rossi
Gaetano Salvemini
Tommaso Salvini
Giorgio Saviane
Odoardo Spadaro
Giovanni Spadolini
Angelo Torchi
Luigi Ugolini
Pasquale Villari
Franco Zeffirelli




Notes


Foresto Niccolai (ed.), The urns of the strong, monuments and burial inscriptions , Coppini Tipografi, Florence, September 1997.
Valeria Paniccia, Walking in the meadows of eternity , Mursia Editore, 2013
Aldi there of the Holy Doors – Studies of conservation and restoration of the burial monuments, Florence, Palazzo Spinelli, 2016




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References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Vittorio Matteo Corcos
• Giovanni Papini
• Cimitero delle Porte Sante
• Ruggero Leoncavallo
• Giovanni Berta
• Lazar Berman
• Giovanni Papini
• Pasquale Romanelli
• Michele Gordigiani
• Carlo Collodi
• Giacomo Delcroix
• Alessandro Bonsanti