I decided I wanted some quiet instead of the noise and activity in the center of town, so I walked to the municipal graveyard, a huge affair with very closely spaced plots.
There were a larger number of people than I was expecting for a work-day out tending their family plots, adding flowerpots, watering the flowers already there, raking the gravel level, and other work.
For the photos I’ve posted here, there are color and a black-and-white versions. I’m up in the air on some of them as to which makes the better picture.
One of the first sights I encountered was one of several areas they have with arrays of the dead from World War I (click on any photo for a larger image in a new window):
Another plot nearby had another World War I fatality, someone who had been decorated for their service (the engravings of the medals are dimly visible in the circle of the horn scribed in the marble):
There were some rather large monuments and crypts present as well. Here is the top of one:
This is the same dome, but zoomed in on the cross at the cap of the dome:
This is the interior of the domed monument that you can see above. I liked how the iron gate mirrored the marble cross inside the monument:
Some monuments were literally dissolving. I was not able to get a photo of one of them that looked to be centuries old and resembled in no small part the 13th century church close to my apartment. I plan to return to photograph it.
Other, more recent plots also were in ruins:
There was one plot against one of the exterior walls of the graveyard that had no marble headstones, but instead had metal nameplates scattered around on the ground:
Finally, a slightly more contemporary monument had in addition to a bronze relief of the deceased in the black marble back, a full statue beneath a black marble roof:
It was actually a very well done statue. I need to see if it is a copy of a more famous work, or if it is an original. I wouldn’t mind having a copy of it.
I have a few more photos, but these should be sufficient to tax those on dial-up for now.
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