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Title: The Camposanto Monumentale cemetary in Pisa
Date: 2007
Total items: 367
The cemetery (Camposanto Monumentale) was founded in 1277 and finished in 1464. The building surrounds a courtyard with cloisters; it is said that some people from Pisa brought back some soil from the Holy Land with them from the first crusade (c. 1146) and buried it there. The walls were painted with great murals and frescos, but these were largely destroyed in the Second World War. Today, the Camposanto contains a large number of stone sarcophagi, and, after asking for and obtaining permission, I photographed most of htem along with their captions. I have transcribed the English part of the captions; if you would like to help me with the Italian (or any other) parts, please do so: email the text to me together with the complete and exact URL of the page containing the caption.
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