THE CHARTREUSE

The Carthusian Monastery of St. Christopher is much more than a municipal cemetery; it is a “place of memories”.



Here lie our illustrious ancestors, who brought fame to this city: from the founder, the devout Borso d’Este, to the minister Costabili, the intellectual Leopoldo Cicognara and the famous portraitist Giovanni Boldini.

All the tombs are not just a homage to these characters, but a real itinerary that recounts the history of sculpture in Ferrara from the Renaissance, through the Neoclassical period to the Art Nouveau era.


Let’s observe these funeral monuments with a critical eye, without losing the spiritual meaning of the place, which is reinforced by an atmosphere of peace and serenity underlined by its location: a wide green space, framed by semicircular colonnades that are the backdrop for the church designed by Biagio Rossetti.


This sets the ideal seal on a tour that ranges from the ancient Carthusian cenoby to recent work that has restored as much splendour as possible to the building’s ancient Renaissance design.