founded 1882 - may have been an older one on this site before.

Located on the path to the right and behind the parish of San Giovanni Battista in Pieve di Monti di Villa.
Includes three mausoleums. One for the Gabrielli family.

Though the cemeteries are considered part of the village church in these small Italian towns, they are administered by the Comune. Many of them have not been enlarged in hundreds of years; the old custom was to place newly deceased family in the same grave on top of the older generations. There would have been no large vaults or large permanent coffins. The new name was added to the other names on the tombstone. However, two new trends have emerged in recent decades: 1. new burials have full size vaults and coffins; they displace more than one old grave. 2. the old custom was that all plots had a RIP Rest-in-Peace term of 100 years - as long as a new family member was added within 100 years, the grave was considered occupied and not available for any other family. This has now been changed to a 50 year term. If no one claims the plot for 50 years, the Comune will re-lease it to someone else. If a stone is there, it is moved and propped up against a side wall, and later disposed of. Any skeletal remains are put in a pit in the cemetery chapel. So there are likely many more remains at this site than stones. It also explains why a few of these stones were stacked up on the ground around the left side outside the wall. I documented what I could find.