Cemetery

I'm getting a little behind on my posts here, but last week I went on my first group outing with some of the other women here.  We went on a bike tour of Ferrara with an Italian friend of the group who is an architect, city planner, and native of Ferrara.  She talked a lot about the history of the city (back to the year 700!), and we rode our bikes around while she told us about some of the famous landmarks in the city.  It was really fun, and very informative.

One of the places we briefly went was through the cemetery.  Robbie and I knew it was there but thought it was blocked off.  Turns out, there's a Jewish cemetery that isn't open to everyone, but the big, main cemetery is.  We only saw a tiny corner of it on our tour, so Robbie and I went back to explore the next day.

I don't wander around cemeteries much, but this one was amazing.  There were parts of it that looked like cemeteries I've been in before--headstones in the ground and that kind of thing. But there were big sections of crypts where families are buried.  Many of them had beautiful statues and fresh flowers in and around them. You can tell the graves are visited often and well cared-for by loved ones. 

Here are some pictures:

On the walk down there, we passed this building and I commented on how much I liked the sculpture on it.  It looked like the balcony is being supported by little angels:

Then a couple days later we went to go check out a thrift store someone told us about, and I found a drawing of this same doorway.  Upon closer inspection, it's actually a photocopy of a drawing that someone added some brown marker to, but I liked it and it was only a few euro, so we got it.  I'll have to reframe it, but I think it'll look nice in our new apartment.