New cemetery
in
S. Stefano
photo by M. Fogliarini (Sanremo January 11-12 fh 2009)
translation by Josie Ciccarelli
The amplification of the small town cemetery of S. Stefano al mare (IM) has been planned between 2003 and 2005 and realized in 2006 by the architects Aldo Amoretti, Marco Calvi and Giancarlo Ranalli.
A sequence of prismatic blocks contemporarily constitutes the burials and the wall of enclosure.
The openings between a block and the other allow a constant visual contact with the sea and with the cycling path that races along the border of the cemetery.
The secondary entry seen by the cycling path.
From left to the right the new and the old burials.
The cycling path and the wall of enclosure formed by the prismatic blocks of the new burials.
The wall of enclosure from another point of view.
The main entry.
The prismatic blocks, the cycling path and the sea.
The prismatic blocks and the sea.
The main street paved with washed cement conglomerate.
The main street seen by an opposite perspective to the preceding one.
An opening towards the sea.
The secondary street paved with loose gravel and to the right, in axle, two openings toward the sea.
The cement sides of the burials.
Sea cemetery
by
Piero Farina
If someone indeed looked for
the lost breath
of those who rest in the white prisms
of the sea cemetery
If someone laid their ear
close to the sepulchres
and listened to the laughing
and the weeping
of Anthony Pietro Maria.
And if to the sound of the pedal
on the cycling path
joined the low voice
of those who have come
to the end of the road
the lifeless undone looks
could still reach
the sea water
and to the horizon the sails
in the light of the sun.
Sanremo, January 15 th 2009
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