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San Michele CemeteryPage 2
ABOVE: Vaporetti run to the island almost constantly during All Saints' Week.Segregation by sect
The island has two mini-graveyards for other Christian sects: the Greci or Greek Orthodox cemetery, where Igor Stravisky and Sergei Diaghilev are buried; and the Protestant graveyard, whose most famous resident is Ezra Pound. (Jews have their own cemetery on the Lido, Venice's resort island.)
The occasional English epitaph reminds visitors of a time when the British upper classes regarded Venice as a home away from home. The most famous inscription honors a Staffordshire man who was said to have "Left us in peace, Febry 2, 1910." Next page: "Your checkout time is 2024"
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Most of San Michele's acreage is reserved for Catholics--a fact that's hardly
surprising in a country where Roman Catholics, practicing or otherwise, make up the vast
majority of the population. In
In contrast to the formal and beautifully tended Catholic gardens of graves, the Greci
and Protestant sections have an atmosphere of rustic decay. Some tombstones are covered in
moss; a few lean at precipitous angles; several have keeled over in a parody of those
whose deaths they commemorate. 
