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Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery
Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery in Paola is Malta's general public cemetery and was designed by the Maltese architect Sir Emanuele Luigi Galizia. It is designed in the neo-gothic style and divided into a symmetrical and radial arrangement of burial sections and ceremonial paths arranged on the slopes of a steep hill.
The original layout is set within a pentagonal area having parallel sides. The internal avenue network is set around a central diamond-shaped space occupying the highest point and on which the main church was built on a platform.
From this central area radiate eight avenues in symmetrical directions, forming burial areas in triangular shapes. The main features comprise an entrance gate, administrative offices, keeper's lodge and chaplain's quarters, the exedra, church, a number of ossuaries, as well as the boundary wall, monumental stairs and revetments.
The cemetery contains a large number of private mausoleums, chapels, grave monuments and grave-stones of high artistic and architectural quality.
Mepa scheduled the Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery and ancillary public structures as a Grade 1 national monument as per Government Notice number 628/08 in the Government Gazette dated July 21, 2008.
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JOSEPH FSADNI
Sep 23rd 2009, 12:45
WHEN WAS IT BUILD,THEN AND DON'T FORGETB PHOTOS PLEASE,.IT'S NOT THE SAME
Galea. L
Sep 22nd 2009, 21:59
I thought that we were going to have photos accompanying the reports when photos started to appear, but it seems that the authorities are too embarrassed by the present situation of the subject.
Anton Caruana Galizia
Sep 22nd 2009, 11:08
This is the first time I have seen my great grand father given the title "Sir".
True, he was knighted, but by the Pope (Pius IX, I think), not by Queen Victoria. He was given the Order of St Gregory the Great.
He was also given a medal by the Turkish Sultan for his design of the Turkish cemetry, which is now surrounded by the ugly buildings of the Marsa industrial estate.