Sculpture Garden

Staglieno is the largest outdoor sculpture museum in Europe. It covers 330,000 square meters (more than 3.5 million square feet) and has over 117,000 grave sites, of which 290 are chapels placed within the open arches of the gallery arcades, and 468 fill the large internal gallery niches. The Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno was conceived in the early 1830s and officially opened on January 1, 1851. Learn how your donation helps save these sculptures.

Detailed maps of Staglieno are available on the City of Genoa’s Staglieno website 

PLANNING

PLANNING

IN PROGRESS

IN PROGRESS

RESTORED

RESTORED

 

“... On either side, as one walks down the middle of the passage, are monuments, tombs, and sculptured figures that are exquisitely wrought and are full of grace and beauty. They are new and snowy; every outline is perfect, every feature guiltless of mutilation, flaw, or blemish; and therefore, to us these far-reaching ranks of bewitching forms are a hundred fold more lovely than the damaged and dingy statuary they have saved from the wreck of ancient art and set up in the galleries of Paris for the worship of the world.”

— Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad , 1869

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American Friends of Italian Monumental Sculpture
Working with Camposanto di Staglieno, Genoa, Italy

American Friends of Italian Monumental Sculpture is a United States based not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization, and all donations to AFIMS are fully deductible to the full extent of the law. AFIMS is dedicated to assisting the City of Genoa in its efforts to preserve the art and artistic legacy of the Camposanto di Staglieno for the education and appreciation of current and future generations.