Monumental cemetery of Trento, Cemetery and Italian national heritage in Trento, Italy.
The monumental cemetery of Trento was designed in 1824 by engineer Giuseppe Pietro Dal Bosco. It contains the Trento military shrine, the Austro-Hungarian ossuary monument and a cemetery church dedicated to the Redeemer. A crematorium was inaugurated there in 2021.
The cemetery was built in 1826 following architect Giuseppe Pietro Dal Bosco's design and opened to the public the following year. Its creation came from the need for a modern burial ground following contemporary European practices.
The cemetery holds the Trento military shrine and the Austro-Hungarian ossuary monument, and its burial church is dedicated to the Redeemer. Among those buried here are DC leader Flaminio Piccoli, economist and politician Beniamino Andreatta, Brigate Rosse member Mara Cagol and journalist Alfredo Pieroni.
The cemetery stands in Trento at coordinates 46.06320, 11.11783. Construction began in 1826 and continued for more than forty years, so the layout mixes sections built across decades. A crematorium was inaugurated here in 2021.
The cemetery holds the tomb of Flaminio Piccoli, national secretary of the Christian Democrats, along with the economist and politician Beniamino Andreatta, the Red Brigades member Mara Cagol and the journalist Alfredo Pieroni. A crematorium was inaugurated here in 2021.
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