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Cimitero Acattolico per gli Stranieri

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The Cimitero Acattolico ("Non-Catholic Cemetery") of Rome. It is the final resting place of non-Catholics including but not exclusive to Protestants or British people

Rome’s Cimitero Acattolico per gli Stranieri, or "non-Catholic" cemetery has a palpable air of Grand Tour romance and tragedy. This beautiful site is where romantic poets Keats and Shelley are buried, having died in Italy respectively of consumption and drowning, as well as the poet Johann Goethe and Italian political thinker Antonio Gramsci.

Among the gravestones and cypress trees, look out for the Angelo del Dolore (Angel of Grief), a much-replicated 1894 sculpture that US artist William Wetmore Story created for his wife's grave.

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