After my Italian lesson I did a spot of shopping. I have been here one week, and this is the first time I have been in a bookstore and I only bought one book. This might be a record for me! When I visited London two summers ago, I think I bought 6 books within an hour of arriving in the city. I bought a book in Italian and can justify the physical book (rather than eBook) since I want to annotate it with translations, etc.
I then headed to il Cimitero Monumentale, a large cemetery in Milan. Unfortunately the sun was already setting and I only had an hour before they closed. This is one of the most amazing cemeteries I have ever seen, and I will definitely be going back! Not only is it huge, but almost all of the graves have extremely elaborate memorials. This ranged from large mausoleum buildings to rose gardens encased in glass to incredible sculptural work. My main thought was, "How could there be this many people with this much money?"
I barely saw 10% of this amazing cemetery, which is unfortunately a bit far from my apartment. Otherwise, I would go back often!
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| I didn't even go inside this building. The tomb of a very famous writer is inside. |
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| This building was huge, and in some places there were grave markers from 2015 next to others from 1915 |
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| Many graves had amazing sculptures like this. |
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| Thank goodness it has been a long time since I've seen the Doctor Who episode "Blink", but it kept coming to mind... |
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| Crying statues are very much a thing here. |
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| Check out the rose garden in the bottom right! |
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| This is maybe 5% or less of the total cemetery in this picture. |
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