The Cimitero di Trespiano ("Trespiano Cemetery") is a cemetery along the Via Bolognese near

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History

It was inaugurated on 1 May 1784 following the reforms of Lorena that banned the burial of a deceased in the church. The monumental cemetery, later expanded into the

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of the ridge of the Terzollina stream, incorporated the Pilastro villa, in the 15th century belonged to the Davanzelli and then passed on to the Tassinari in 1786, and the villa the Almonds, already belonged to the Dominican fathers of

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. In 1881 the cemetery covered 18,000 m ², while in 1906 it had already tripled and in 1931 it came to measure 54,000 m ². The care of the cemetery was entrusted to the secular fathers and from 1850 to 1890 passed to the Cappuccino fathers; It was then directed by an inspector. Modern access is marked by a row of cypresses marking the monumental architecture of the place of silence, designed by architect Umberto Fabbrini. The grandeur of the valley that opens in front of the panoramic scenery of Mount Morello is so solemn that it deserves the definition of "Florence

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". The Bracco Chapel was built by

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between 1969 and 1970.

Buried personalities

In the cemetery of Trespiano are buried the remains of the

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and

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Giuseppe Poggi Giuseppe Poggi (3 April 1811 – 19 March 1901) was an Italian architect, mainly active in Florence. From 1864 he designed the city's urban renovation, which included the demolition of the walls, and the creation of the Viali di Circonvallazio ...

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, Mario Fabiani, Lando Conti,

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, Gaetano Pieraccini, Ernesto Rossi,

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, Spartaco Lavagnini, Aldobrando de 'Medici Tornaquinci, Ettore Nava,

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, Ugo Schiff,

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, Luigi Michelet, Gillian Brilli Peri, Clement Biondetti,

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, and Giaele Covelli. In Trespiano Florentine cemetery the ashes of

Dora d'Istria Dora d'Istria, pen name of Duchess Helena Koltsova-Massalskaya, born Elena Ghica (Gjika) (22 January 1828 in Bucharest – 17 November 1888 in Florence), was a Romanian Romantic writer and feminist. She was an advocate for the Albanian natio ...

, aka the Princess Helena Koltsova-Massalskaya, born Elena Gjika are still kept today.

Notes

* Foresto Niccolai (edited by), ''The urns of the strong, monuments and sepulchral inscriptions'', Coppini Tipografi, Florence, September 1997

References

{{Authority control Cemeteries in Florence Roman Catholic cemeteries in Italy