Cimitero Flaminio

The Cimitero Flaminio lies in Prima Porta on the northern edge of Rome, about 12 kilometres outside the centre along the ancient Via Flaminia. The 140-hectare site opened in 1941 and is still the largest cemetery in Italy, significantly bigger than the inner-city Verano cemetery. It was designed by Elena Luzzatto, one of the few women architects to win major public commissions in Fascist Italy; her grid layout with parallel avenues was created because Verano could no longer keep up with a fast-growing Rome. The grounds include a Muslim section, an Orthodox section and, more recently and controversially, the "Giardino degli Angeli" for aborted foetuses. The cemetery is reachable on the regional FL3 train to Prima Porta.