Cimitero Acattolico per gli Stranieri

Lonely Planet review

Despite the busy roads that surrounding it, this is a surprisingly restful place. You can wander the lovingly tended paths contemplating Percy Bysshe Shelley's words: 'It might make one in love with death to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place'. And so he was - or at least part of him. During cremation, apparently, his heart did not burn right away, was snatched from the flames and later interred here with his wife, Mary Shelley.

Shelley's contemporary and fellow Romantic poet, John Keats, is also buried here, his modest tomb bearing the inscription: 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water'.

But the cemetery isn't confined to the Protestant dead - there are several Russians as well as Antonio Gramsci, founder of the Italian Communist Party.