Arche Scaligere | monument, cemetery

Italy / Veneto / Verona /
 monument, cemetery
The Scaliger Tombs (Italian: Arche scaligere) is a group of five Gothic funerary monuments in Verona, Italy, celebrating the Scaliger family, who ruled in Verona from the 13th to the late 14th century.

The tombs are located in a court outside the church of Santa Maria Antica, separated from the street by a wall with iron grilles. Built in Gothic style, they are a series of tombs, mostly freestanding open tabernacle-like structures rising high above the ground, with a sarcophagus surmounted by an elaborate baldachin, topped by a statue of the deceased, mounted and wearing armour.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaliger_Tombs
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Coordinates:   45°26'37"N   10°59'56"E
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