Data sheet
Name: Vitali Aedicule
Locarion: field 2, no. 16
Author: Giovanni Ceruti (architect)
Executione date: 1886-1887
Beniamino Vitali was a canvas merchant born in Alessandria. Following the death of his daughter Erminia in 1886, he asked architect Giovanni Ceruti to design a large family tomb. The newspapers of the time wrote that “it was one of the most grandious in the area”. As was the case for the synagogues of the time its oriental style was considered the most suitable for a Jewish monument. The structure is a tower with columns whose top narrows upwards. There are horizontal bands of alternately light and dark stone. The name Beniamino Vitali is written above the entrance on a golden mosaic background. Thirteen family members are buried here.
Giovanni Ceruti designed the pavilions of the National Exhibition of 1881 in the Public Gardens in Milan and the Civic Museum of Natural History within the same gardens in 1892.
