Cimitero della Certosa

The Certosa di Bologna is a former Carthusian monastery (or charterhouse) in Bologna, northern Italy, which was founded in 1334 and suppressed in 1797. In 1801 it became the city’s Monumental Cemetery which would be much praised by Byron and others. In 1869 an Etruscan necropolis, which had been in use from the sixth to the third centuries BC, was discovered here. The Certosa is located just outside the walls of the city, near the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, at the foot of the Monte della Guardia and the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca. El Certosa di Bologna es un antiguo monasterio cartujo (o cartuja) en Bolonia, en el norte de Italia, fundado en 1334 y suprimido en 1797. En 1801 se convirtió en el Cementerio Monumental de la ciudad, que Byron y otros elogiarían mucho. En 1869, se descubrió una necrópolis etrusca, que había estado en uso desde los siglos VI al III a. C. El Certosa se encuentra a las afueras de las murallas de la ciudad, cerca del Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, al pie del Monte della Guardia y del Santuario de la Madonna di San Luca. The public cemetery was established in 1801 using the pre-existing structure of the Certosa di San Girolamo di Casara, founded in the middle of the 14th century that was closed by Napoleon in 1797. The passion of the local nobility and aristocracy for monumental family tombs transformed the Certosa in an “open-air museum,” a stage of the Italian grand tour: it was visited by Byron, Dickens, Theodor Mommsen, and Stendhal. In particular the third cloister (or that of the Chapel) is noteworthy: a tour of neoclassicism-inspired structures with symbology from the age of enlightenment. Some tombs are painted in tempera, others are made of stucco and scagliola. El cementerio público se estableció en 1801 utilizando la estructura preexistente de la Certosa di San Girolamo di Casara, fundada a mediados del siglo XIV que fue cerrada por Napoleón en 1797.