Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno

Cemetery Genoa, Italy

The monumental cemetery of Staglieno (in Ligurian Çimiteio de Stagén) is the largest burial place in Genoa and is one of the most important monumental cemeteries in Europe together with the monumental cemetery of Messina. It is located in the Val Bisagno, in the territory of the "Municipio IV - Genova Media Val Bisagno", including the Staglieno district. Illustrious sons of the Ligurian capital and other famous personalities are buried there, including one of the fathers of the Italian homeland, Giuseppe Mazzini, the Prime Minister and partisan Ferruccio Parri, the composer of the music of the Italian anthem Michele Novaro, numerous Garibaldians among such as Antonio Burlando and others who were part of the expedition of the Thousand (a field is dedicated to them), the actor Gilberto Govi, the singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André, the painter Federico Sirigu, the writer Fernanda Pivano, the poet Edoardo Sanguineti, Constance Lloyd (wife of Oscar Wilde), Nino Bixio and Stefano Canzio. Due to the vastness of its imposing funerary monuments it is considered a real open-air museum. The numerous funerary statues and chapels - works mainly by Genoese sculptors - albeit built in different styles, give the whole complex an important value in terms of architecture and funerary sculpture.