Roberta, 40, first entered the Cemetery with her grandmother when she was still a child.
Her initial feeling of bewilderment disappeared when her grandmother took her into her arms and began speaking to her about the Captain, donna Concetta, and the Spouses. At that tender age, those stories felt like fairy tales from a distant time, legends wrapped in ancient magic.
A place that means family
Even today, if she happens to meet an elderly person near the Cemetery telling those stories, bridges between different eras, she stops, listens, and for a while becomes a child again in her grandmother’s embrace.
