Cimitero Monumentale del Verano
The Monumental Cemetery of Verano is located in the Tiburtino district, near the Basilica of St. Lawrence Outside the Walls, in an area which has always been burials. The name comes to the ancient Campo dei Verani, senatorial gens to the times of the Roman Republic. The modern Cemetery was established by Napoleon in 1805 and completed by Giuseppe Valadier in 1812. With Virginio Vespignani, the project was structured in a definitive way with the expansion (the "Pincetto"), incorporating expropriated land until the sixties, when went into operation the Flaminio, the other great Roman cemetery. The entrance with three arches, embellished by the presence of four large statues (Meditation, Hope, Charity and Silence), precedes a large quadrangle. The Verano Cemetery, with its wealth of art, is a veritable outdoor museum of inestimable value for the historical and cultural period from mid-nineteenth century to the present day: in it are in fact buried personality from the world's arts (Alberto Moravia, Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Grazia Deledda, Trilussa, Vittorio De Sica, Vittorio Gassman, Natalia Ginzburg, Nino Manfredi, Marcello Mastroianni, Amedeo Nazzari, Elio Petri, Gianni Rodari, Nino Rota, Alberto Sordi, etc.), politics (Giuseppe Saragat, Palmiro Togliatti, Pietro Nenni, Nilde Iotti, Giulio Andreotti, Ugo La Malfa, etc.) and entertainment (Gabriella Ferri, Rino Gaetano, Raimondo Vianello, etc.).
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