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WDEC 2019 OPEN HOUSE TURIN (IT)- ARCHITECTURE AND PARTICIPATION
OPEN HOUSE EVENT IN THE MONUMENTAL CEMETERY OF TURIN
On the occasion of the Week for the discovery of European cemeteries, OPEN HOUSE TORINO organizes a visit between the architecture and the stories of a city in the city: the Monumental Cemetery of Turin.
The Monumental Cemetery of Turin has preserved works of art, precious architecture and moving landscapes from the early 19th century.
Manuela Vetrano of the blog La Civetta di Torino, accredited operator, accompanies the group inside the large, fascinating field - a city in the city.
With a message: a city designed better in buildings, in interiors, in public space is a city capable of making us live better.
Open House Torino is an invitation to discover, in a big party for curiosity and a sense of belonging.
The event is organized by the cultural association Open House Torino, formed in 2017 by a group of architects and city enthusiasts.
FREE VISIT WITH RESERVATION REQUIREMENT - MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS 30
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WHAT IS OHT
Open House Turin is a totally free public event, designed to allow you to visit houses, buildings, places that are not normally accessible and thus discover the richness of architecture and the urban landscape. For a weekend a year gives the opportunity to visit historic, modern or contemporary buildings, private apartments, offices, green or social spaces, excellence in the city, recovered structures.
The event of 8-9 June 2019 will be the third Turin edition of an international format.
The idea of Open House was born in London in 1992 from the work of founder Victoria Thornton and has since spread throughout the world. To date, the cities of the Open House Worldwide network are more than thirty, distributed in every continent.
In Italy, Turin follows Open House Rome (from 2012) and Open House Milan (from 2016).
The first edition in 2017 was a great success, with over 38 thousand visits and around 15 thousand visitors on over 100 buildings. In the second edition the event has grown further, exceeding 55 thousand visits and 18 thousand visitors in more than 140 places.
Open House Turin is aimed at all citizens, not just the core of architects, and asks all of them to support them as volunteers, owners, designers or simply to help spread the project - share with #openhousetorino! The aim of the event is to get to know the public together a great common heritage and reflect on the role of the places in which we live.
TanExplora symposium
As a part of TanExpo exhibition taking place in Bologna on March, 23, an Italian national symposium "CONTEMPORARY EVOLUTION IN CEMETERY ARCHITECTURE" will be held.
English Cemetery (Florence, Italy)

This Protestant cemetery located at Piazzale Donatello was founded in 1827 by the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church.
The Victorian (1827-1877), so-called ‘English’ Cemetery for non Catholics (Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox and other confessions), owned by the Swiss Reformed Church, is now surrounded by traffic. It is located on a hill with cypress trees, that may be an Etruscan tomb, famously presented in Arnold Boecklin’s ‘Island of the Dead.
Its tombs are sculpted by some of the greatest sculptors of the nineteenth century. It is the burial place of the poets and writers, sculptors and artists, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walter Savage Landor, Arthur Hugh Clough, Frances Trollope, Hiram Powers, Joel Hart, many friends of Florence Nightingale, and many participants in the Battle of Waterloo. Burials now can be of cinerary urns and bones, no longer entire bodies.
Its tombs are sculpted by some of the greatest sculptors of the nineteenth century. It is the burial place of the poets and writers, sculptors and artists, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walter Savage Landor, Arthur Hugh Clough, Frances Trollope, Hiram Powers, Joel Hart, many friends of Florence Nightingale, and many participants in the Battle of Waterloo. Burials now can be of cinerary urns and bones, no longer entire bodies.
Address
English CemeteryPiazzale Donatello 38
50132 Firenze, Italy
Contacts
Tel.: 39 055582608Tel/Fax: 39 055582608
E-mail: holloway.julia@tiscali.it
http://www.florin.ms/cemetery.html
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