Lindsay Kemp (1938-2018), British dancer, actor and choreographer. His training benefitted from David Hockney in art, Hilde Holger in dance and Marcel Marceau in mime. An inspirational teacher, he formed his own company in the 1960s. Among those he trained were David Bowie and Kate Bush. He left England in 1979 for Spain and then…
Richard Wyatt (1795-1850), English sculptor, a rival and a friend to John Gibson. Both of them studied with Canova and Thorvaldsen. He is noted for his neo-classical figures, especially female, which are now found in many public and private collections. On his death in Rome, John Gibson asked to design the monument, which he did…
Joseph Severn (1793-1879), English painter, who looked after Keats during his final illness. As a painter he was versatile, producing portraits, genre scenes, and biblical and literary subjects. He returned to Rome in 1861 as British consul, a post he filled amiably but without distinction. In 1882, following a public subscription, he was buried next…
Belinda Lee (1935-1961), English film actress born in Devon. Now little known but in the 1950s a popular star for her acting ability and her glamorous good looks. Her career changed direction after moving to Italy, only to have it prematurely ended in a car accident while travelling from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. A…
John Gibson (1790-1866), Welsh sculptor, who first visited Rome at the age of 27 and stayed until he died. Taken under the wing of Canova, he soon won many commissions for portraits and monumental sculpture in the round from patrons in England. He also carved the gravestones in the Cemetery for his younger brother Benjamin…
Carl Philipp Fohr (1795-1818), German landscape and portrait painter, born in Heidelberg. His watercolours of the Neckar region and of Baden, commissioned by the Grand Duchess Wilhelmina of Hesse, are much admired. Walking to Italy, he settled in Rome in 1816, where he produced notable portraits of the Nazarene painters living there before tragically being…
Jacob Asmus Carstens (1754-1798), a German/Danish painter (from Schleswig), considered the founder of the later school of German historical painting. On visits to Rome in 1783 and 1792 he was influenced by the painting of Giulio Romano. He produced some fine subject and historical paintings, e.g., Plato’s Symposium and the Battle of Rossbach. In 1795…
August Riedel (1799-1883), German painter who studied first at Munich and then at Dresden. In 1832 he moved permanently to Rome and became a professor at the Academia di San Luca. He is known for his sensitive portraits and for his genre scenes and landscapes in Italy. His tomb of pink granite has a fine…
William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), the most prominent American sculptor in Rome for 40 years. He designed the Angel of Grief, the best-known and arrestingly beautiful sculpture in the Cemetery, as a monument to his wife (Story was buried in the same tomb after his own death). His life was the object of a biography by…
Karl Pavlovich Brullov (1799-1852), the first Russian painter to gain recognition in the west, and regarded as a key figure in the transition from Russian neoclassicism to romanticism. His best-known work, The Last Day of Pompeii (1830-1833; State Russian Museum, St Petersburg), is a vast composition resulting from a visit to the site in 1827. It…
The Non-Catholic Cemetery for Foreigners in Rome is one of Europe’s oldest active burial grounds and is privately operated. Its main purpose is to provide a place of repose for those buried here and to allow their continued, respectful commemoration. One of the greatest challenges we face is to ensure a contemplative atmosphere appropriate for the loved ones of those who lay to rest.
Please note the Cemetery is not offering guided tours for the time being.
In recent years, the site has become increasingly popular among visitors and now requires all groups to be accompanied by a group leader or authorized tour guide. Please book well in advance and note that groups can include a maximum of 14 visitors (i.e. a total of 15 people per group). When cemetery activities permit, we can accommodate up to two groups in the morning and up to two in the afternoon. Kindly fill in the following form and wait to receive a personalized response which will state whether or not we can accommodate your request.
In order to guarantee the right conditions for funerals and cemetery activities, groups will not be admitted into the Cemetery unless they have booked in advance and have received confirmation for their booking. Groups will not be allowed to disband into smaller clusters to visit the site on an individual basis.
We kindly request a voluntary contribution of five euros (per visitor), which may be paid on site to Cemetery staff and goes directly to offsetting the operating costs of the Cemetery.
We are unable to accept phone queries about bookings for group visits and ask group leaders/authorized tour guides to use the following form to book two to three weeks in advance. As the needs of the Cemetery are our top priority, office staff is on duty Monday through Friday and can take over a week to reply. We appreciate your patience and thank you for honoring our mission.
N.B. Space for group visits is highly limited. If you cannot make your scheduled booking, please inform us as soon as possible by contacting: mail@cemeteryrome.it. Group leaders who do not respect their appointments may be denied bookings in the future.
Other Cemeteries:
The Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe(ASCE), of which the Non-Catholic Cemetery is a member
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Italy, there is a CWGC cemetery with the graves of some of the many Commonwealth servicemen who fell in Italy located in via Zabaglia, opposite the Non-Catholic Cemetery
The Protestant Cemetery in Florence
The former English Cemetery in Naples
The Mausolea & Monuments Trust is a charitable trust for the protection and preservation of mausolea and funerary monuments situated in Great Britain and Ireland
The Fondazione Montaigne (Montaigne Foundation) administrators of the English Cemetery in Bagni di Lucca in Tuscany
Other sites of interest:
The Keats Shelley Memorial House, Rome, home and deathplace of the English Romantic poet John Keats, buried in the Cemetery
The Andersen Museum, Rome, studio and home of the Norwegian/American sculptor and painter Hendrik Christian Andersen, buried in the Cemetery
The Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, Rome, foundation set up in memory of the Italian Communist writer Antonio Gramsci, buried in the Cemetery
Casa di Goethe, home of the German writer Goethe during his stay in Rome – Goethe’s son August is buried in the Cemetery
ICCROM, The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
Il Trattore, the co-operative responsible for garden maintenance in the Cemetery
Roma Video, click on Musei e Monumenti to see videos about the Cimitero Acattolico and its neighbouring Piramide Cestio
Wanted in Rome, a magazine for the English-speaking community in Rome
Il Labirinto, Rome-based quality in poetry, narrative, essay and art books illustrated by contemporary artists, some of which are on sale in the Cemetery Visitors Centre
The Anglican Centre in Rome building friendly and informed relations between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church
Please visit “Plan your visit” to orient yourselves. For more detailed information, you can visit the resources listed under “Explore“.
We also have an FAQ you may find useful.
