Primo Levi's tomb... or not

Chemist, author, and Auschwitz prisoner #174517, Levi is buried a half hour from my Turin apartment. I walked there this morning, to a cemetery with a Jewish quarter. 

When i got to the cemetery, i was immediately distracted by the opulent tombs and monuments.

miles of them lining roads.

With cool sculptures, as above...and

all kinds of architecture, gothic domes, neoclassical columns, and art Deco tombs i like a lot. 

as i wandered through aisles of this, i thought it was competitive, and said aloud, "it's tombage!" Which rhymes with plumage. 

on and on, road after road, until i stopped and asked GPT, "this is the size of Foro Italico, i think. Right?" Nailed it. Foro Italico, major aroman Olympic venue is 50 hectares. This cemetery is 51!

The signage was great. Maps

and individual grave info. 

With the little codes to scan to learn even more..

It was like the Turin Museum of The Notable Dead. 

One of my favorites was a tomb of intellectuals, probably child-free, mostly professors. The guy who installed gas lighting in Turin, professors of Sanskrit and Latin. Journalists, poets. Zoologist, early adopter of blood transfusions... I swear i gained IQ points just standing there. 

Elsewhere, a famous organizer of Turin's 1821 riots, an operetta comedic soprano, a Secretary of the Navy... You could literally spend 2 hours per day there for a week and learn so much!

The art was incredible. Copper angels, statues like the guy above with his dog, delicate stone work, black marble that wowed, wrought iron designs...

 Portico after portico, collonade after collonade like this one with several signs in each one. 

As it ends up, you need an appointment to see Levi's tomb, and i belatedly realized it was Shabbat anyway, so i had the wrong day free. But here it is, from the cemetery's website, in winter. 

Whoever designed and curates this? Bravissima or bravissimo! What an amazing find.