The Monumental Cemetery of Milan:

a truly open-air museum.

The sound of silence.

A walk among Milan’s most renowned families.

The size of the Cimitero Monumentale is striking even when just looking from the outside. It was designed in 1866 by the architect Carlo Maciachini to celebrate the city’s independence from foreign rule. You could say that the entire history of Milan from the Risorgimento onwards is squeezed into these sixty-plus acres of marble and trees of cypress and magnolia.
It’s almost a city within the city, centered around the Famedio, a Memorial Chapel or the pantheon of VIPs where the worthiest citizens of Milan are celebrated or buried. Book your private guided tour now

The eclectic architecture shifts freely from one style to another. The most beautiful tombs are to be found outside the Famedio, though, among the flowerbeds edged by temples, Egyptian pyramids and gorgeous group sculptures.
This truly open-air museum features the works of famous artists such as Giannino Castiglioni, Lucio Fontana, Giacomo Manzù, Arturo Martini, Francesco Messina, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Medardo Rossi, Vincenzo Vela, Adolfo Wildt, Leonardo Bistolfi, Enrico Butti, Ernesto Bazzaro, Alik Cavaliere, etc.

During the private guided tour, we will wander among the tombs and monumental chapels to go through the historical events of Milan and its artistic history from Realism and Eclecticism to Art Nouveau and Symbolism, from the Thirties to the Contemporary age.  Contact Barbara Quarello now

You will be impressed looking at the works of art of the most remarkable Italian sculptors and architects who worked for important industrial families like Campari (producers of the famous aperitif), Falck, Bocconi (founder of the University of Economics), Bernocchi, or for the conductor Arturo Toscanini. In this graveyard is even buried Hermann Einstein, father of the physicist Albert.
At the very end of the perimeter you find the Crematorium Temple which is a testimony to nineteenth-century Positivism and faith in science that made Milan the first city in the whole of Europe to adopt the practice of cremation. It was built at the behest of Alberto Keller, a businessman, industrialist, Freemason and philanthropist of Protestant religion.

Duration: 4 hours.

The tour is available every day except on Mondays.

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