Civic Museum of the Risorgimento

The cemetery was established in 1801 using the former buildings of the Carthusian monastery, which was built starting from 1334 and closed by Napoleon in 1796.

The Chiesa di S. Girolamo testifies to the lost wealth of the monastery. The walls house the great cycle of paintings dedicated to the life of Christ, created by the leading artists of Bologna in the mid XVII century.

The heart of the cemetery is the Third Cloister, a faithful reflection of Bologna’s neoclassic culture where the initial painted tombs are joined by works in stucco and scagliola and – from the midnineteenth century – in marble and bronze. Over the centuries the complex has taken on an urban form, built around the old nucleus with loggias, cloisters, porticoes and rooms that have gradually become larger and more monumental. They house an enormous wealth of paintings and sculptures created by the finest of Bologna’s artists, testifying to the complex cultural, historical and intellectual events of the city. At the Archaeological Museum it is possible to admire a large portion of grave goods from Etruscan tombs, discovered between 1869 and 1873, including the famous Situla della Certosa vase, a masterpiece from the VI century BC.