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The
photograph which
graces the cover
of Joy Division's
second and final
album 'Closer'
was taken at the
Cimitero Monumentale
di Staglieno in
Genoa, Italy.
This breathtaking
'necropoli' was
first opened in
1851 and grew
to its current
size, which includes
an English cemetery
in which the wife
of Oscar Wilde
is interred. The
cemetery has been
the object of
praise by visiting
writers including
Ernest Hemingway
and Mark Twain
who have fallen
under the spell
of the hundreds
of sensually carved
figures who have
come to be known
as the 'talking
statues' for their
lifelike realism.
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