A partire dalle sepolture all’interno delle chiese, passando per i cimiteri ottocenteschi collocati per ragioni igieniche al di fuori del perimetro urbano, fino ai moderni parchi cimiteriali contemporanei, i cimiteri costituiscono una interessante chiave di lettura per capire e interpretare le società che li hanno eretti.
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Sacred Spaces: What Can Cemeteries Teach Us About Our History and Society?
“Cemeteries are regarded as places that welcome different identities, representing a certain culture. They are, above all, places of memory rooted in the spatial, temporal, and bodily experiences fostered by the location. They are not just a place for the body to rest, but a place of action, where the temporality of death is processed, where the dead themselves gain a social role in which biological events are replaced by rituals.”