Stones and Bones Ep. 18 - Monumental Cemetery in Milan
History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Diane Student
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Cimitero Monumentale di Milano isn't just a cemetery. This is a remarkable place of outdoor art, an open-air museum if you will. This city of the dead in Milan, Italy is nearly 160 years old and features beautiful memorials, ornate tombs and artistic sculptures. There are many Italian famous people buried here. Join me as we wander the tombstones and mausoleums.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you spectacular people. Welcome to Stones and Bones episode number 18. |
| 0:07.0 | We're going to be covering the monumental cemetery in Milan. |
| 0:11.0 | And let me just say this at the very beginning. |
| 0:14.0 | A lot of the words that are going to be coming up in this episode are Italian. |
| 0:19.0 | And you know how I am with pronunciation, so I ask for |
| 0:22.5 | your patience as we get through this episode. And also, you may not like watch the videos very |
| 0:30.3 | often, but if there was a video episode you were going to watch, this would be the one to do that |
| 0:35.9 | with because I'm going to be sharing |
| 0:37.8 | some amazing, amazing, amazing. I can't say it enough about the cemetery's monuments and sculptures. |
| 0:47.7 | This is just a place of artwork. And so it's something you're definitely going to want to see. |
| 0:52.8 | I will try to describe everything as best as I can. |
| 0:56.2 | But just know that you're probably going to want to watch this later if you're listening to the audio right now. |
| 1:02.7 | Of course, if you're one of our patrons over at Patreon, the video is already up there for you. |
| 1:09.4 | So you can either watch the video or listen to the audio. |
| 1:12.1 | For those of you who do not support the show in a monetary way, |
| 1:15.4 | you'll have to head over to YouTube in order to watch the video there. |
| 1:19.8 | There are places for our dead. |
| 1:26.2 | Places of peace and I not dread |
| 1:32.3 | Sites of simple or elaborate stones |
| 1:37.3 | That memorialize our lost one's bones |
| 1:43.3 | Welcome to stones and bones. The Chimitero Monumentale de Milano isn't just a cemetery. |
| 2:09.9 | This is a remarkable place of outdoor art and open-air museum, if you will. |
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