Photography by Mario Gagliardi

The Brion-Vega cemetery was designed by renowned 20th Century architect Carlo Scarpa. Scarpa developed the geometrical concrete composition over a 10 year period, finally completing the cemetery in 1978. Located in San Vito d'Altivole, Italy, it was built as an extension to the family's existing cemetery and is the resting place of the Brion family members and the architect himself - Carlo Scarpa.

Scarpa described once described the cemetery - "I would like to explain the Tomba Brion...I consider this work, if you permit me, to be rather good and which will get better over time. I have tried to put some poetic imagination into it, though not in order to create poetic architecture but to make a certain kind of architecture that could emanate a sense of formal poetry....The place for the dead is a garden....I wanted to show some ways in which you could approach death in a social and civic way; and further what meaning there was in death, in the ephemerality of life—other than these shoe-boxes."