New cemetery
in
Sanremo
photo by M. Fogliarini (Sanremo August 30 th 2007)
translation by Josie Ciccarelli
The amplification of the cemetery of the Armea in Sanremo realized by the architects Aldo Amoretti and Marco Calvi in 2003, consists in the cemetery, in the ossuary tower and in the cloister.
The cemetery, where stone coffins of marble and tombs are partially buried and identified by a headstone of coverage, is formed by terrace roofs following the natural topography of the place.
The ossuary tower welcomes individual ossuary prepared so to form an only collective urn.
The cloister contains the ossuary and the common cinerary.
The different places of the cemetery have been built with two types of stone: the white marble of Carrara for the burials, the limestone of Vicoforte for the rest.
A stairway of more ramps conducts to the new wing of the cemetery. On the left the ossuary tower, on the right the cloister.
On the foreground the stone coffins, on the background the terrace roofs of the natural amphitheater with the burials.
The individual tombs and the pedestrian runs.
On the foreground the pedestrian runs.
The pedestrian runs, seen by the lower part, recall the tubs for the irrigation of the terrace roofs, the so-called bands, that characterize the Ligurian country.
Again the pedestrian runs seen by the lower part. On the background the Poggio’s village.
The central staircase and the individual tombs.
The stone coffins, the ossuary tower, the cloister.
The ossuary tower and, on the background, the cloister.
Particular of the north wall of the ossuary tower.
The ossuary tower and, on the background, the hill where Bussana vecchia rises.
The ossuary tower.
A ramp of the staircase in the ossuary tower.
A landing of the ossuary tower.
Inside of the ossuary tower and, on the background, the cloister.
Inside of the ossuary tower and, on the background, Bussana vecchia.
The west side of the cloister.
The cloister.
The inside of the cloister with the common ossuary and the cinerary grave.
The inside of the cloister and the common ossuary grave.
The loophole in the wall of the cloister.
The loophole in the wall of the cloister with the common ossuary and the cinerary grave.
Christian cemetery
by
Piero Farina
In the heat of the solstice
an arc of white sepulchres
and a staircase stretched out in the sky.
Rise again restlessness,
reality of ancient excommunications,
intense prayers, invocations
that free the mind
and seem to break the stone.
So it happens to believe
in the shades of the reason
and that a thin blade of light
can illuminate in depth
the endless loneliness of the death.
Sanremo, Valle Armea, summer 2007
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