FLORENCE'S 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY, AN ISLAND LINKED TO THE WORLD

Florence's Swiss-owned 'English' Cemetery is an island linked to the whole world, its English, Swiss, Russian, American and other graves being in so many scripts, so many languages. It has been abandoned for 125 years. It is now time for the world to reclaim it and make it once more beautiful and accessible.
Here is a photograph of Piazzale Donatello.


The tall building in the centre the far side of the cemetery is the studio of Michele Gordigiani who painted the portraits of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, now in London's National Portrait Gallery. Go to the National Portrait Gallery website to find them: http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/. Our library in the Cemetery's Gatehouse, that you see to the right, has books by and about the famous Victorian writers and sculptors buried here. Our on-line catalogue is at http://www.florin.ms/libhe.html. While our catalogue of all the tombs is at http://www.florin.ms/cemetery1.html,etc.

You can join us in saving this monument and be a part of Florence and her beauty.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/471134975