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Thanks!

I have a quite easy one :) Edit:Please name the city.

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Maybe too easy, too ...

 

But I like the picture.

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“Camposanto Monumentale (Monumental Cemetery)*—*The Camposanto (“Holy Field” in Italian), perhaps the most beautiful cemetery in the world, is a huge oblong cloister at the northern side of the square. In 1278, to make use of a shipload of sacred soil brought back from Golgotha during a crusade, construction commenced. The cemetery was not completed, however, until 1464 because of serious setbacks resulting from the destruction of Pisa’s navy by the Genoese in 1284.

 

Most of the tombs are nestled under the arcades surrounding the cloister. The galleries are paved with over 600 tombs, many of which are Greco-Roman sarcophagi that were pilfered by prominent Pisans.”

 

Excerpt From: Robert E. Woods and Laura W. Skora. “Tuscany by Car – the Complete Guide.” iBooks.

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Bob, thanks for the very complete answer! Here are a few more pics.

 

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Nice shots of the Camposanto!

 

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