An air of Grand Tour romance hangs over Rome’s 'non-Catholic' cemetery. More than 6000 people are buried in the walled site, their gravestones shaded by umbrella pines and cypress trees. Notable residents include Marxist intellectual Antonio Gramsci, former Italian president Giorgio Napolitano, and Romantic poets Shelley and Keats, both of whom died in Italy.
Among the headstones, 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.