Pino Snorr
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The construction of the cemetery became necessary following the laws Napoleonic which included the cemeteries built outside the city walls . Before it, the dead were buried near the churches (only the church of San Bernardino grew to 50,000 graves during the plague of 1630 ).
The cemetery was built in a neoclassical and although he appears majestic proportions space for burials was exhausted in no time. Already in the last decades of the nineteenth century it had to expand with smaller replicas on the east side.
Up in the sky
The construction of the cemetery became necessary following the laws Napoleonic which included the cemeteries built outside the city walls . Before it, the dead were buried near the churches (only the church of San Bernardino grew to 50,000 graves during the plague of 1630 ).
The cemetery was built in a neoclassical and although he appears majestic proportions space for burials was exhausted in no time. Already in the last decades of the nineteenth century it had to expand with smaller replicas on the east side.