{"id":25585,"date":"2023-06-16T17:34:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T15:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/cimitero-degli-inglesi-english-cemetery\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T09:52:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T07:52:43","slug":"cimitero-degli-inglesi-english-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/cimitero-degli-inglesi-english-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cimitero degli Inglesi (English Cemetery)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South of Capo Figara, behind the picturesque beach of Cala Greca, sits a small valley that slopes down towards the sea. Here you can find a small cemetery known as the <strong>Cimitero degli Inglesi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The small cemetery is home to 13 graves and a stone parallelepiped in the shape of a pyramid, held up by two cross-studded juniper trunks. A marble headstone, erected in 1891 by the \u201cNavigazione Generale Italiana\u201d, honours five sailors who drowned when the <strong>Ligurian sailing ship \u201cGeneroso II\u201d<\/strong> sunk in <strong>1887<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The name Cimitero degli Inglesi came from folk tradition. For many years, there was a belief that the English sailors who drowned at Capo Figrai were buried under the cross. In reality, the only English soldier buried there is <strong>George Christian Bradshaw<\/strong>, who died on the <em><strong>Vulcan<\/strong><\/em> ship in <strong>1900.<\/strong> His tomb is clearly visible with its large Celtic cross in white painted wood.<\/p>\n<p>The other graves, marked by a small cross with two juniper trunks, are those of Italian sailors drowned in different shipwrecks over the course of the centuries. 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