Vantinian cemetery

Architectural masterpieces in Botticino Classico marble

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Vantinian cemetery
Brescia, 1815-1864
Rodolfo Vantini

 

The Brescia cemetery, designed by the architect Rodolfo Vantini, is considered the first monumental cemetery in Italy and the prototype for those in Neo-Classical style that would be built over the course of the 19th century.

 

In fact, it was the first to take on explicity the extent to which it was considered monumental and its prestige and civic status.

 

The buildings and the porticos hearken back to "heroic" classical Greek and Roman architecture; on the inside of a large quadrilateral with an exedra, rising from the center is a chapel dedicated to St. Michael and aligned with it a tower/lighthouse topped by a lantern that is 60 meters high.

Photographs by Michele Nastasi

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      Founded in 1987, the Consortium of Botticino Classico Marble Producers associates the leading local Producers, qualifying itself as the main promoter of the culture and quality of Botticino Classico Marble in the world. Due to new challenges from competitors marbles, exported by developing Countries, in 2005 the Consortium has registered a Collective Mark of Origin, the first one applied to the stone market, in Italy, in the European Union and in 22 non-EU countries. With the registration of the Mark of origin, the Consortium provides a formal and substantial guarantee that products, from the area covered by the denomination, are produced according to the most stringent quality controls and pursuant to European regulations. The Consortium is now in the global market, a reality that has the ambition and hope to revive the "Made in Italy" in a field of thousands of years of tradition and cultural values​​.)

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