With our daughter, Jamie, here last week and starting Italian lessons this week, we have obviously not gotten around to posting anything to our blog. I will try to make up for that today and tomorrow.
Attending a concert of flutes and a harp in the park, we noticed that the cemetery that we had passed several times that as always closed , was open. We had to go inside to have a look around. What a stunning contrast to any cemetery I had ever been in. Some of the family crypts seemed to be as big as small churches. I think the pictures speak for themselves and I will just say I found the whole place fascinating.
i had the same surprise in Enna, Sicily…i thought it was a small village
Wow- those are some impressive crypts!
Some years ago…at the Cimitero Maggiore in Milan….BLOWN AWAY! One sculpture of a small child running across grass planted on the top surface of a low tomb, hands outstretched for a butterfly…the grave of a four year-old. So very beautiful and so very sad, too. Other larger…much larger, and also beautifully made, but none more moving.