The English cemetery or non Catholic cemetery is a cemetery located near Porta San Paolo, one of the gates in the Aurelian walls, on the outskirts of the historic city of Rome and next to the Pyramid of Caius Caestius, a I century AD wealthy Roman who had his tomb built like the Egyptian pyramids, following Augustus’ conquest of Egypt and the craze for all things Egyptian.
The cemetery was created from the 1700s to give a burial to the Protestants in the court of the deposed Stuart dynasty who resettled in Rome and because of the great number of foreigners buried there. For centuries until 1870, when Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, the Popes didn’t allow non Catholics to be buried inside the city walls on consacrated land and in daylight.
It is called sometimes English cemetery because of the great number of English noblemen and intellectuals buried there, especially in the 1700s and 1800s, when Rome was the highlight of the Grand Tour.
The cemetery is also noteworthy because of the juxtaposition of the Anglo Saxon way of buring their deads with a simple tombstone on the grass and the elaborate tombs more typical of Southern and Catholic Europe.
Where the English poets Percy Shelley and John Keats are buried amongst others
The English poets John Keats and P.B. Shelley are there, as well as Italian-American poet Gregory Corso (who was actually Catholic but lied about it before passing just so that he could be buried there.)
Finally something else than another picture of Lake Bled or Venice on this sub. Europe is full of this kind of extraordinary places that don’t get enough beauty credit. Great picture.
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The English cemetery or non Catholic cemetery is a cemetery located near Porta San Paolo, one of the gates in the Aurelian walls, on the outskirts of the historic city of Rome and next to the Pyramid of Caius Caestius, a I century AD wealthy Roman who had his tomb built like the Egyptian pyramids, following Augustus’ conquest of Egypt and the craze for all things Egyptian.
The cemetery was created from the 1700s to give a burial to the Protestants in the court of the deposed Stuart dynasty who resettled in Rome and because of the great number of foreigners buried there. For centuries until 1870, when Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, the Popes didn’t allow non Catholics to be buried inside the city walls on consacrated land and in daylight.
It is called sometimes English cemetery because of the great number of English noblemen and intellectuals buried there, especially in the 1700s and 1800s, when Rome was the highlight of the Grand Tour.
Famous tombs include those of English poets [Percy Shelley](https://viaggiverdeacido.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cimitero-acattolico-tomba-shelley.jpg) and [John Keats](https://www.unosguardoalcielo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Keats-Grave.jpg), [Goethe’s son](https://www.lasinodoro.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/August_von_Goethe_cimitero_acattolico-scaled.jpg), American artist [William Wetmore Story’s wife](https://staticfanpage.akamaized.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/cimitero-acattolico-roma-1200×675.jpg) and in more recent times Antonio Gramsci, a senior member of the communist party who was imprisoned and tortured during the fascist regime.
The cemetery is also noteworthy because of the juxtaposition of the Anglo Saxon way of buring their deads with a simple tombstone on the grass and the elaborate tombs more typical of Southern and Catholic Europe.
Where the English poets Percy Shelley and John Keats are buried amongst others
The English poets John Keats and P.B. Shelley are there, as well as Italian-American poet Gregory Corso (who was actually Catholic but lied about it before passing just so that he could be buried there.)
Finally something else than another picture of Lake Bled or Venice on this sub. Europe is full of this kind of extraordinary places that don’t get enough beauty credit. Great picture.