Italy Will Build Vertical Cemetery
With its graveyards packed to capacity, the Italian city of Verona is planning to build the country's first high-rise cemetery, with space for 24 thousand graves stacked over 33 storeys.
Council officials have given initial approval to plans submitted by Cielo Infinito - Infinite Sky - to build s futuristic tower topped by a chapel on the outskirts of the city where Shakespeare set Romeo and Juliet.
For tomb with a view, customers can have their ashes stored, be buried in a coffin, or pick one of more than 2000 group chapels where family members can be interred together.
A city spokesman said the idea had won support because Verona's main cemetery had been completely built around, and could no longer expand. No final decision has yet to be made, with a vote by all council members yet to be taken, he said.
Although it will be Verona's tallest building, the spokesman said that it would be beyond the ring road and would not ruin the city's skyline.
The spokesman said that a cash offer from Cielo Infinito for the land had helped to win officials round, as the council suffers funding cuts.
"We tried to sell the land involved for US$ 932 thousand and had no takers, then this company came forward with an offer of US$ 14 million," he said.
Last year a new vertical cemetery project introduced in Norway. In India, currently being built a vertical cemetery, which is called Moksha tower. Currently, the tallest sky cemetery is the Memorial Necropole Ecumenica III, a 32 storey high-rise in Santos, Brazil.
Council officials have given initial approval to plans submitted by Cielo Infinito - Infinite Sky - to build s futuristic tower topped by a chapel on the outskirts of the city where Shakespeare set Romeo and Juliet.
For tomb with a view, customers can have their ashes stored, be buried in a coffin, or pick one of more than 2000 group chapels where family members can be interred together.
A city spokesman said the idea had won support because Verona's main cemetery had been completely built around, and could no longer expand. No final decision has yet to be made, with a vote by all council members yet to be taken, he said.
Although it will be Verona's tallest building, the spokesman said that it would be beyond the ring road and would not ruin the city's skyline.
The spokesman said that a cash offer from Cielo Infinito for the land had helped to win officials round, as the council suffers funding cuts.
"We tried to sell the land involved for US$ 932 thousand and had no takers, then this company came forward with an offer of US$ 14 million," he said.
Last year a new vertical cemetery project introduced in Norway. In India, currently being built a vertical cemetery, which is called Moksha tower. Currently, the tallest sky cemetery is the Memorial Necropole Ecumenica III, a 32 storey high-rise in Santos, Brazil.
