Rome's Largest Cemetery

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Chapel, Cemetery of Verano

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On December 19th 1996, the film star Marcello Mastroianni died in Paris.

Mastroianni is buried in Rome's largest cemetery, the Campo Verano, alongside other such notable figures as he writer Alberto Moravia (1907-90), Alessandro Moreschi (1858–1922), the last surviving castrato at the time of his death, and the English novelist Ronald Firbank (1886-1926).
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The Campo Verano (Cimitero Comunale Monumentale Campo Verano), which covers 80 hectares (200 acres), is Rome's largest cemetery. Initiated during Napoleonic rule, which forbade burials in churches and towns, the cemetery was designed by the Roman architect Giuseppe Valadier (1762-1839) between 1807 and 1812.

The chapel and quadriporticus were designed and built by another Roman architect, Virginio Vespignani (1808-82), in 1852. The four allegorical statues (Silence, Charity, Hope & Meditation), at the entrance, were added in 1878. 

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Entrance to the Cemetery of Verano

The Four Allegorical Statues