30 Days of Tuscany- Day 19 - CEMETERY- SANT' ANNA IN CAMPRENA

10 years 8 months ago - 10 years 8 months ago #291602 by Tuscan Muse
During our most recent Photography Workshop we visited the Abbey at Sant' Anna in Camprena on our way to Pienza. This is the site where the movie, The English Patient was filmed.

The cemetery at the Abbey will always be memorable. It was not your typical cemetery because it was covered in wildflowers. Instead of individual flowers at each gravesite, the entire cemetery was one, huge flower garden.

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10 years 8 months ago #291616 by Don Fischer
Are #2 and #4 wooden grave markers? We have quite a few old cemeteries around here and I have found a few old marker's made out of wood. Can't read anything on them anymore but they do make me wonder. How poor could a family be that they need to use a wooden marker. And these are cemeteries with lots of stone markers in them. Old here means that they go back to the very early 1900's. There are a few homesteads and house's that go back to the 1860's but that is very very old around here. There are a couple I know of that have been ignored for years. Both have wrought iron fences and gates but today are overgrown with weeds and sagebrush. There was one over near the coast that was really in ruin and some of the marker's in it were pre 1900. They are really ineresting places.


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10 years 8 months ago - 10 years 8 months ago #291658 by Tuscan Muse
The oldest markers that I could read were in the early 1800s. #2 and #4 are made of iron, not wood. This is a really intriguing cemetery. I don't know if the wildflowers were purposely planted or if they just grew over the gravesites via the whim of Mother Nature.
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