Cimitero delle Porte Sante
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| Established | 1837 |
| Country | Italy |
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.[1][2][3]
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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 author 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.
Personality Tombs
In addition to many neo-Gothic architectural testimonies, the cemetery welcomes the illustrations of many illustrious characters, including:
- Giuseppe Abbati
- Libero Andreotti
- Pietro Annigoni
- Pellegrino Artusi
- Luigi Bertelli (Vamba)
- Alessandro Bonsanti
- Mario Cecchi Gori (with his wife Valeria)
- Gaetano Chiavacci (with his wife Ada)
- Anna Maria Chiavacci Leonardi
- Alimondo Ciampi
- Bruno Cicognani
- Carlo Collodi
- Enrico Coveri
- Felice Le Monnier
- Claudio Leonardi
- William Books Carucci from Sommaja
- Nicola Lisi
- Guido Manacorda
- Cyprian Mannucci
- Ferruccio Masini
- Giovanni Meyer (founder of the pediatric hospital Meyer )
- Giovanni Papini
- Stanislao Paszkowski (Founder of Coffee Paszkowski )
- Marietta Piccolomini
- Ermenegildo Pistelli
- Paolo Poli
- Cesira Pozzolini
- Vasco Pratolini
- Rodolfo Marma
- Renzo Ricci
- Fedele Romani
- Brass Roses
- Bruno Rossi
- Family Sapihea (family tomb that studied the future Pope John Paul II)
- Gaetano Salvemini
- Tommaso Salvini
- Giorgio Saviane
- Pietro Scarpini
- Pietro Siciliani
- Odoardo Spadaro
- Giovanni Spadolini
- Frederick Stibbert (family tomb)
- Angelo Torchi
- Luigi Ugolini
- Aldo Valleroni
- Act Vannucci
- Vespucci family (family tomb)
- Pasquale Villari
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
