English Cemetery, Florence

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The English Cemetery in Florence is a historic 19th-century Protestant burial ground known for the graves of notable foreign residents, writers, and intellectuals who lived or died in the city.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Protestant cemetery
cemetery
historic cemetery
alsoKnownAs English Cemetery, Florence
surface form: Cimitero Protestante di Firenze

English Cemetery
surface form: Cimitero degli Inglesi

English Cemetery, Naples
surface form: English Cemetery
burialPlaceOf Arthur Hugh Clough
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fanny Trollope
Francesco Nencini
Hiram Powers
Russian Orthodox expatriates
Swiss Protestants in Florence
Theodore Parker
Walter Savage Landor
members of the Anglo-American community in Florence
closedForBurials 1877
coordinateLocation 43.776°N 11.268°E
country Italy
foundedBy Church of Scotland
surface form: Reformed Church of Scotland

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
Swiss Evangelical Church
hasArchitecturalStyle Romantic funerary art
hasCulturalSignificance example of international Protestant presence in Catholic Italy
important site for 19th-century literary history
important site for the history of foreign communities in Florence
hasFeature cypress trees
monumental tombs
perimeter wall
raised oval-shaped island
sculpted gravestones
hasUse burial ground for foreign Protestants
site of literary pilgrimage
tourist attraction
heritageDesignation historic site
inception 1827
locatedIn Florence
Piazzale Donatello
Tuscany
Viali di Circonvallazione
historic center of Florence
maintainedBy Swiss Reformed Evangelical Church of Florence
opened 1828
ownedBy Swiss Reformed Evangelical Church of Florence
partOf network of historic cemeteries in Florence
religion Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
significantEvent closure to new burials after inclusion within Florence city limits
documentation and cataloguing of graves by scholars
restoration campaigns in the late 20th century
touristType cultural tourism
literary tourism

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Theodore Parker burialPlace English Cemetery, Florence
Elizabeth Barrett Browning placeOfBurial English Cemetery, Florence
Claire Clairmont burialPlace English Cemetery, Florence
this entity surface form: Cimitero degli Inglesi, Florence
English Cemetery, Florence alsoKnownAs English Cemetery, Florence
this entity surface form: Cimitero Protestante di Firenze
Arnold Böcklin burialPlace English Cemetery, Florence
this entity surface form: Cimitero degli Allori, Florence