Urban Cemetery, Bistolfi, Alloatti, Piatti. Immortal Liberty Expressions
The Italia Liberty association has organized a tour with CuneoAlps tour guides, leading participants on a slow and evocative stroll through Cuneo's urban cemetery, where silence becomes an integral part of the narrative and Art Nouveau art emerges amidst pedestrian walkways and monumental chapels. The route winds past tombs and monuments that reveal the Symbolist sensibility of Leonardo Bistolfi and Gianbattista Alloatti and the formal elegance of Leonardo Piatti, whose funerary works engage with the theme of memory through ethereal figures, collected gestures, and surfaces modeled with profound emotional intensity. The guide guides the eye to capture often overlooked details, intertwining local history, iconographic meanings, and the atmosphere of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Art Nouveau sought harmony between nature and emotion. Walking among these masterpieces, one senses how the cemetery becomes an open-air museum, capable of recounting a refined artistic era and offering visitors an intimate experience of contemplation and respect, a testament to beauty that endures over time.
Entrance fee: €10.00
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