Cimitero Flaminio (Rome)

The Cimitero Flaminio (also known as Cimitero di Prima Porta or Cimitero di Montebello) is a cemetery in Rome (Italy), outside the Grande Raccordo Anulare to the north, between the Via Flaminia and the Via Tiberina.

Flaminio Cemetery
Cimitero Flaminio
San Michele Arcangelo al Flaminio
Details
Established1945
Location
Via Flaminia, Km 14,400, 00188 Rome
CountryItaly
Coordinates42.015°N 12.496°E / 42.015; 12.496
Typecivilian cemetery
Size140 ha

History

The cemetery was established in 1945 on a project by the architect Elena Luzzatto.[1]

Description

With its extension of 140 hectares,[2] it is the largest cemetery in Italy; it is crossed by 37 km of internal roads, on which vehicles and buses circulate.

The graves are mainly mound tombs; many of them are arranged into buildings or constructions which, due to their shape, are called "semicircular". There are some distinct departments for the different religious denominations, as well as numerous common fields and a crematorium.

It is considered a masterpiece of contemporary cemetery architecture. It houses the tombs of many famous personalities of Italian culture, art, entertainment, sport and politics of the last century.

Within the cemetery rises a church dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel in Flaminio, a subsidiary place of worship of the parish of Santi Urbano e Lorenzo a Prima Porta.

Famous people buried in the cemetery
The grave of Domenico Modugno

Transports

Notes
  1. Las revolucionarias : literatura e insumisión feminina, edited by Estela González de Sande, Sevilla, Arcibel, 2009, pp. 440–441. ISBN 978-8496980723
  2. From Cimiteri Capitolini, checked on May 4, 2012

See also
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