Luigi De Marchi, Author at CulturalHeritageOnline - CHO

Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris

GARDEN CEMETERY – 1804 – PARIS, FRANCE Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris The world’s most visited cemetery – Wilde’s kissed sphinx, […]

VICTORIAN NECROPOLIS – 1839 – LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM Highgate Cemetery, London The Victorian valhalla overgrown – Egyptian Avenue’s shadowed vaults,

SPORTING SHRINE – 1814 – LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM Lord’s Cricket Ground, London The home of cricket – the Long Room’s

SACRED NECROPOLIS – 9th c. onward – KOYASAN, JAPAN Okunoin Cemetery, Koyasan Two kilometres of lantern-lit cedar dusk to Kobo

METROPOLITAN NECROPOLIS – 1874 – VIENNA, AUSTRIA Zentralfriedhof, Vienna Half the size of Zurich, twice as much fun – Vienna’s

HISTORICIST ARCADES – 1879 – ZAGREB, CROATIA Mirogoj Cemetery, Zagreb Europe’s most beautiful cemetery arcades – Bolle’s ivy-draped cupola walls

RURAL CEMETERY – 1838 – BROOKLYN, USA Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn The park before the parks – Gothic gates, glacial hills,

BAROQUE ENGINEERING – 1748 – LISBON, PORTUGAL Aguas Livres Aqueduct, Lisbon The arches that outstood the earthquake – 65 metres

CABLEWAY – 1912 – RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL Sugarloaf Cable Car, Rio de Janeiro The bondinho over the bay –

ART DECO – 1930 – CHICAGO, USA Adler Planetarium, Chicago The hemisphere’s first planetarium – a deco dodecagon of rainbow