I want to share with you a detail of the gate of the cemetery in my city: the skeletons on the main gate. Here in my city (Pistoia, Italy) is very strange to see a goth style gate like this and even if we have 3-4 cemeteries, this is the only one with some details like this.
The oldest part of this cemetery was built in the 1767, when the Grand Duke Leopoldo commanded to bury the dead out of the walls of the city to preserve the sanitary conditions of the citizens. In the 1867, thanks the plan of the architect Bernardo Bernardini, the cemetary was enlarged adding a big meadow, chapels and underground tunnels.
All around the cemetery, like every cemetery here in Tuscany, there are many cypress trees.
You have to know that, even if we can see cypress trees everiwhere in the Tuscany country, everytime I see one of them I immediatly thought to a cemetery ;)
Inside the cemetary there are many family's chapels with interesting decorations and style, but I didn't take pics of them because I wanted to respect the rest of the dead. My family, since I was a child, teached me that we have to have respect for the dead, so we have to stay in silence in the cemetery and we have to think about people who are resting there.
See ya later
Silvia
