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November 4, 2018October 21, 2018 / Nellie Merthe Erkenbach / Leave a comment

Cimitero Monumentale di Torino III

Turin Torino cemetery art female figures

discovery and significance – Turin’s Monumental Cemetery 1/3

October 21, 2018October 21, 2018 / Nellie Merthe Erkenbach / Leave a comment

Cimitero Monumentale di Torino I

Turin’s Monumental Cemetery has been a true discovery. I have travelled extensively and photographed so many graveyards all over the world but I needed arrive in Turin to discover this:

There is an Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe.

There is a European Cemeteries Route.

You can download an amazing cemetery app called ARtour for Turin that is a real asset and inspiration while discovering the beauties of this truly monumental and overwhelming graveyard.

Thanks to Renata Santoro at Cimitero Monumentale di Torino who pointed all this out to me. You inspired me! Grazie mille!

soon to come: art and architecture – Turin’s Monumental Cemetery 2/3

goodnight sweet prince

a prince drowned, a church gone and a Loch renamed The Isle of Skye boasts an overwhelming richness of meaningful place names coming out of two linguistic sources: Gaelic and Old Norse, the latter because of the invading Viking forces. Norse names can be found all over the island but mainly along the coast where the Viking […]

wild bishop

This is a tale about a chapel, a saint and a bishop and rather surprisingly in that context, a tale about destruction, castration and a proud heart. The Isle of Skye at its wildest! The tale unfolds on graveyard on a small island in the river Snizort , just a few miles off Portree, and […]

Unveiling a Highland Noir of Secrets, Solitude, and Suspense

The thrilling and brilliantly narrated Highland crime series opens a fantastic new chapter in Scottish literature with its unique blend of haunting atmosphere, extraordinary characters, and emotional depth.***When Isabel Hartmann hikes to the idyllic Sandaig beach on Scotland’s west coast, the last thing she expects to discover is the dead body of a German tourist. Suddenly, the translator finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation.DI Robert Campbell faces a a tourist shot dead in a remote location and no motive for murder.The picturesque Highland village of Glenelg becomes the centre of the investigation, and Campbell soon discovers that everyone has a secret, and no one is who they claim to be.The icy solitude of a Highland winter draws Robert and Isabel into a deadly maelstrom of love, passion, and violence.***Highland Crime blends the classic detective genre with the challenges of relationships. Distinctive and emotionally complex stories set in the magnificent and awe-inspiring landscape of the Scottish Highlands.Nellie Merthe Erkenbach lives in the Scottish Highlands and takes her readers on a fictional journey to the places around shops, pubs, remote mountain bothys, original locations, there to be explored when visiting Skye and Lochalsh.

light on untouched graves

This graveyard is a very peaceful one, snuggling between the river and the old town of Callander, the Parish church is long gone. But there is a small building in the old graveyard wall, that tells a gruesome story. Not by day but by night. Callander old kirkyard once was haunted by very creepy […]

Wife in Fife

It was in Fife that the first collection of Scottish proverbs was made by David Ferguson, minister of Dunfermline. Ferguson’s collection, though published only in 1644, nearly fifty years after his death, had been made during his life in the latter half of the sixteenth century. This is a collection of sometimes odd and often amusing sayings.

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female figures – Turin’s Monumental Cemetery 3/3

discovery and significance – Turin’s Monumental Cemetery 1/3

Cimitero Monumentale di Torino I