Finally, after years that I watched from outside along the way back home from college , I finally visited the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, which is located in the district of Testaccio . It is a small cemetery where were buried non-Catholics people (I'm not sure if it is still possible to be buried there). There are also some famous people: Keats, the English writer, Goethe's son, Gramsci and Miriam Mafai (the first was an Italian politician and journalist, Miriam Mafai was an italian writer). As "entry ticket", who is responsible for the maintenance of the cemetery asks for a donation of 3 € and groups are asked to go to '"information office" before starting the visit to the cemetery. As soon as you enter, you realize that the cemetery is quite small, but to visit it well it takes (at least) an hour. There are several graves which are truly special and deserve to be seen.
For example, there is one on which the flowers aren't placed in a vase on the floor or directly on the grave, but they are placed directly in the hands of the statue
I was looking for especially one statue: the statue of the “angel of grieft”, which I had seen in a video of TG2 (the news program of the second channel of Italian public television) dedicated to angels of Rome
After that I found it, I went to search the graves of famous and important character, as Antonio Gramsci (the italian politician and journalist)
and Miriam Mafai
and also John Keats (his tomb is located in the old part of the cemetery, which looks more like a park than a cemetery!)
There are still many things to say, even if the place is really small. But I prefer to leave a few more photos: This is one of those cases in which the images say more than words!
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