“The governments of doing, you say?” our guide chuckled, gesturing towards the Cimitero di Arnate. “Well, sometimes ‘doing’ means taking care of what we already have.” We stood at the entrance of the cemetery. The air was surprisingly peaceful. It was a far cry from the grandeur of Milan’s city center, yet there was a quiet dignity to the place. The Cimitero di Arnate, we learned, had been making headlines. Not for any grand spectacle, but for a simple, rather unfortunate reason: weeds. “The newer part of the cemetery, where the recent exhumations were done, has a lot of empty space,” our guide explained. “And this summer, the weeds took over.” He showed us a picture on his phone. It showed a swathe of untamed greenery engulfing the newer graves. An unusual sight, even for a place where nature and mourning intertwined. This sparked a local debate. The incident at Cimitero di Arnate became a symbol of the ongoing struggle between focusing on flashy projects and maintaining the essential ones. Our guide, ever the storyteller, left us with a thought-provoking question. “Which one truly serves the people better in the long run?” He smiled, leaving the answer hanging in the air, as we wandered deeper into the Cimitero di Arnate, the quiet hum of the city a distant memory.
Nuovo Cimitero di Cologno Monzese
“A timeless sanctuary,” the old woman whispered, her gaze fixed on the rows of marble within Nuovo Cimitero di Cologno