IThe significant cementery of Verona city was built after the Napoleon’s edict of Saint Cloud in 1804; this edict represents the first act of town planning expansion project .
It was necessary more than a twenty-year period not only to locate and acquire the area but also to give the time the engineer Giuseppe Barbieri(Verona 1777-1838) needed to make the plan.
He chose the neoclassical architecture style to carry out the project of the impressive construction. In April 1828, despite the building yard works ,the burials began.
Barbieri’s work is made up of a big square enclosure, that is similar to a colonnaded ambulatory, and which every side’s medium point is characterized by an architectural work: the entrance, the church;a sepulchre named after the distinguished inhabitants of Verona and a similar building for benefactor citizens.
These buildings , called Pantheon, present a eight-doric column pronaos placed before an inner hemicycle; the area inside the enclosure is divided into four parts so defining the boundaries of the fields made for the ground burials.

This elevated and symmetric style, take from the ancien Egyptian, Greek and Roman glorious art ispiration , proportions, construction techniques, quotations, majesty and sobriety.It makes use of local stone materials ,like marble, stones and tuff and it looks to an exact and varied burial planning.
Every span of the enclosure has a hierachical burial organization: two hundrend monumental graves are placed on the STILOBATE NOBILITATE of the doric colonned ambulatory and are not exposed to the inclemency of the weather; so many ground graves are placed right against the stilobate and other two hundred towards the field;at the rear of the ambulatory , in a shady passage there are the”colombaj”, that is to say simple loculus superimposed in six sequences for part.
Dispite the majesty of the work, the available space quickly came to an end and in the last decades of the XIX century the solution was that of building a similar small-sized work on the east side ,using less noble materials and more simple architectural details.