Protestant Cemetery, Rome

The Non-Catholic Cemetery (Italian: Cimitero Acattolico), also referred to as the Protestant Cemetery (Cimitero dei protestanti) or the English Cemetery (Cimitero degli inglesi), is a private cemetery in the rione of Testaccio in Rome. It is near Porta San Paolo and adjacent to the Pyramid of Cestius, a small-scale Egyptian-style pyramid built between 18 and 12 BCE as a tomb and later incorporated into the section of the Aurelian Walls that borders the cemetery. It has Mediterranean cypress, pomegranate and other trees, and a grassy meadow. It is the final resting place of non-Catholics living in Rome or Italy in general, including but not exclusive to Protestants or British people. The earliest known burial is that of a Dr. Arthur, a Protestant medical doctor hailing from Edinburgh, in 1716. The English poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, as well as Russian painter Karl Briullov, are buried there. While mainly the resting place of British and Protestant people or non-Catholic foreigners and non-Italians living in Italy, it also serves as the burial ground for some prominent atheist, agnostic, or non-believer Italians, such as Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci and Italian president Giorgio Napolitano.