Aldo Rossi Cemetery — Attraction in Modena

I didn't visit this place. I only watched an online architecture course - a lecturer spent 9 mins talking about this place passionately.

At first, I thought who want to be buried in this place? This is just like a very ordinary ugly factory probably many workers spent most of their life in. People don't have choices because they have to make for living. But how on earth they choose to be buried in this spiritual prison? They already had enough unpleasant experience and depression during their life. For living people, how can they visit this place and memorize their ancestries with any good memories? Just emptiness and frightened, perhaps.

The building without windows is not a special design or philosophy. It is just like a multi-story parking space you can find anywhere in the city. Or an unfinished office space with absolutely no attention to details but still with no fund to continue to be built.

(I apologise my comments may hurt the people resting there and their families. I only want to comment on the...

Though the project hasn't been finished completely, it's still a place worth visiting. DO NOT follow Google Maps' direction and try to find the south entrance. There is only one entrance on the north side. It takes about 10 mins by bus (NO 9 toward Cittanova) from Modena train station to bus stop Emilia Ovest Madonnina. Take another 15 mins walk via Strada Nazionale per Carpi, turn right, and you will find the main (and only) entrance on Str....

I went there following the google route, it is really a great experience if you appreciate post modern architecture and love the work from Aldo Rossi. The spaces are both intimate and Monumental. Also go onto different floors of the cemetery and see the complex...