Place of worship
Cimitero Monumentale La Certosa Bologna
Former Carthusian monastery reborn as an open-air sculpture cemetery over an Etruscan necropolis.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cimitero Monumentale La Certosa in Bologna opens in 1869, when workers digging fresh graves for the city's grand new cemetery struck bronze beneath the marble angels and monastic cloisters of the former Carthusian monastery. It follows engineer Antonio Zannoni's excavation of an entire Etruscan burial ground some twenty-five centuries old, from the era when Bologna was still called Felsina, and the finely worked objects his team pulled from a woman's grave. Walk the avenues of stone angels here knowing an older graveyard lies just beneath your feet.
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