{"id":25619,"date":"2023-06-20T17:47:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T15:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/bonaria-monumental-cemetery\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T07:52:23","slug":"bonaria-monumental-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/bonaria-monumental-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonaria Monumental Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bonaria <strong>Monumental Cemetery<\/strong> spreads across a vast <strong>area at the foot of the Bonaria hill<\/strong>. In the past, firstly during the Phoenician era, then the Roman one and finally the Christian era, the area unofficially housed a burial ground. <\/p>\n<p>Before the creation of the cemetery the people of Cagliari usually buried their dead in churches or in areas close to them. <strong>The cholera epidemic in 1816<\/strong> threw this system into crisis. Out of a population of around twelve thousand inhabitants, almost six hundred people died in a matter of months.<\/p>\n<p>Both for <strong>logistical reasons<\/strong>, and <strong>health reasons<\/strong>, the city\u2019s authorities decided to identify an area outside the city walls where they could <strong>establish a civic cemetery<\/strong>. <strong>Luigi Damiano<\/strong>, head of the Military Engineering, <strong>completed the work in 1828<\/strong>. The site was <strong>consecrated<\/strong> by the <strong>Archbishop Nicol\u00f2 Navoni on 28 December of the same year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After only thirty years, the burial ground <strong>was already unable to accommodate all the corpses<\/strong>, due to the <strong>rising number of inhabitants<\/strong> in the city. In 1864, the city\u2019s authorities, therefore, commissioned <strong>an initial expansion by the architect, Gaetano Cima<\/strong>. The project envisaged the expansion of the area, by literally digging into the Bonaria hillside and creating a series of terraces referred to as the <strong>&#8220;Gradoni Cima&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Between the <strong>end of the Nineteenth century and the beginning of the Twentieth century<\/strong>, the Bonaria cemetery became the place where Cagliari\u2019s elite wanted to be buried, commissioning funeral works and family chapels. These include <strong>the Devoto Chapel, the Monument to Giuseppe Todde, the Birocchi Chapel, the Nurchis Chapel, the\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/monumento-funebre-famiglia-sanna-manunta-manconi\/\">Sanna Manunta \u2013 Manconi family Memorial<\/a> <strong>and many others<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After the <strong>end of the Second World War<\/strong>, with the opening of the San Michele cemetery and the expansion of the city, it was no longer possible to further extend the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was taken to <strong>shut the Bonaria Cemetery in 1968<\/strong>. Nowadays, however, it is still possible to visit the burial ground, but only the burial recesses purchased prior to 1968.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>2011,<\/strong> the Ministry for Culture declared it a <strong>Monumental Cemetery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":26975,"template":"","tipologia":[998],"categoria":[1023],"tematica":[1030],"class_list":["post-25619","place","type-place","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipologia-cimitero-en","categoria-architectural-asset","tematica-architecture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bonaria Monumental Cemetery - Idese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/bonaria-monumental-cemetery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bonaria Monumental Cemetery - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Bonaria Monumental Cemetery spreads across a vast area at the foot of the Bonaria hill. 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