Sant'Orsola Cemetery (Camposanto di Santo Spirito)
Sant'Orsola, officially called "Camposanto di Santo Spirito" is a monumental municipal cemetery of Palermo.
It is the second largest in the city, and is also known as a tourist destination. Inside there are in fact many tombs, the tombstones of a noble Palermo of the late '700 and' 800. It was built in 1783 at the behest of the viceroy Domenico Caracciolo around the pre-existing Church of the Holy Spirit, one of the greatest examples of Norman architecture.
The cemetery is visible from several districts due to both the high heights of the sepulchral buildings and the votive lights that illuminate the tombstones.
Some of the works of art contained:
Raccuglia Tomb (1899) built by the architect Ernesto Basile
Guarnaschelli Chapel (1899), also by Basile
Zito Tomb, the work of the engineer Michele La Cavera and the sculptor Gaetano Geraci
Bronze monument to Amalia Natoli-Alaimo (1924), made by the sculptor Antonio Ugo
Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero
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Information contributions: Web, Region of Sicily
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