Thursday Doors, April 6, 2017

If you go off the train at the Ostiense station in Rome, you will find all kinds of things going on.

The newly hipsterised area called Testaccio has plenty of attractions. “The old cemetery for non Catholic foreigners,” says the plaque by the door. It is also knows as Protestant cemetery or Cimitero degli Inglesi, “Englishmen’s Cemetery”. Two prominent young poets lie there, next to a Swedish doctor and an American beatnik, among many others, but more on that another time. There is peace, greenery, resident cats and some doors too, of course there are, but there are also some surprising views.

Opposite the entrance.

The entrance.

Didn’t come for the doors.

And yet, whooomp, there they were.

The cemetery is divided into two parts. First the doors from the part on the right.

Not that Andersen.

I cannot ignore a door.

My eye is drawn to each one.

Not strictly a door.

“Step into my office.”

I think amore said: “So you want doors, do you. Here is a door.”

We move to the part on the left: grassy, flowery, with a few surprises.

Doors make it look like a movie set.

Looks just like any other door.

Doesn’t it. And yet…

I think this is the first pyramid door I see in Thursday Doors. From Rome, of all places. Pyramid of Cestius, built about 18–12 BC.

This cemetery has it all: a fairy-tale castle behind the pyramid, Porta San Paolo.

Even this column, and another set door.

Wisteria visitors’ Centre.

Goodbye, pretty cemetery. Not done with it yet, though. I’ll show you some graves in a couple of future posts.

Photo: © signature mmm

For Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors challenge.