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An open-air museum, and one of the oldest necropolises in the north of Uruguay. The Central Cemetery of Salto was laid out in 1853 by master builder Antonio Invernizzi and filled, over the decades that followed, with the marble of a port city that was receiving Spanish and Italian immigrants by the shipload. More than a hundred of its panteones are National Historic Monuments. This guided walk reads them with a local guide: the sculptors, the styles and the symbols, because here everything means something.
The walk covers Invernizzi's plan and the round central chapel; the panteones of the immigrant societies (Unión y Benevolencia, the Spanish and Brazilian associations, the Sociedad Italiana's Panteón Social), bought from a catalogue in Italian marble that came up the river on barges and reached the cemetery on ox carts; works by Giovanni del Vecchio, Giacomo Lena, José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín and Edmundo Prati, among them Del Vecchio's life-size Charity and the templete of the Ventura-Goncálvez family; and how to read the symbols — an angel's wings open or closed, feet on the ground or lifting off it, the open book, the rose, the wreath and the amphora on the obelisk of General Lucas Píriz.
Price on request — I quote the price for your group when I confirm. Start time and meeting point are arranged with you after booking.