App ITALIA DEL PÈRE-LACHAISE

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Italia del Père-Lachaise, a mobile application initiated by TERIA

As a homage to famous Italian personalities, the Consulate General and the COMITES (Committee of Italians Residing Abroad) have launched the editorial project “l’Italia del Père-Lachaise”. From this project was born an interactive application that allows to geolocate the location of the tombstones of the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Italy highlighted at Père Lachaise

The Italy of Père-Lachaise – Extraordinary Lives of Italians from France and French from Italy is a new cultural project of the COMITES in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Paris with the contribution of the Directorate General for Italians Abroad and Migration Policies. This project aims to enhance the memory of 60 famous people, both Italian and French of Italian origin, whose graves are located in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, the largest in Paris and one of the most famous in the world.

The project includes :

an original map of Père Lachaise with the graves of the characters,
a handbook with the routes to be followed and a brief description of each character,
a bilingual illustrated volume,
a smartphone application allowing interactive exploration of monuments.

This editorial project inspired the idea of creating an interactive mobile application created by TERIA, sponsor of the artist Virginio Vona, who was commissioned to create an original comic strip “l’Italia del Père Lachaise, il canto del Gallo”. TERIA was therefore chosen to manage the design of this geolocation application.

The tribute to the famous Italians :

Nearly 60 well-known figures are buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery :

Maria Alboni
Vincenzo Bellini
Serge Belloni
Giovanni Bensi
Marco Bordogni
Ferdinando Bosso
Carlo, Ettore
Rembrandt Bugatti
Caffi Andrea
Maria Callas
Ricciotto Canudo
Enrico Cernuschi
Luigi Cherubini
Eugenio Chiesa
Corvi Jaques
Denina Carlo
Giuseppe De Nittis
Cino Del Duca

Giandomenico Facchina
Lucien Fontanarosa
Antonio Franconi
Piero Gobetti
Grisi Giulia
Teresa et Maria Milanollo
Amedeo Modigliani
Yves Montand (Ivo Livi)
George Moustaki (Giuseppe Mustacchi)
Gioachino Murat
Virginia Oldoini
Aureli Orioli
Francesco F. Paer
Antonio Pacini
Giuseppe Palizzi
Adelina Patti
Serge Peretti
Gennaro Perrelli De Palerme

Emmanuela Potocka Pignatelli
Willy Rizzo
Carlo e Nello Rosselli
Maria Giuseppe Tommaso Rossetti
Gioacchino Rossini
Fabrizio Ruffo principe di Castelcicala
Pietro Savorgnan Di Brazzà
Carlo Evasio Soliva
Eugenia Tadolini (Savorani)
Enrico Tamberlick
Maria Taglioni
Angelo Tarchi
Giuseppe Tortoni
Ennio Quirino
Lodovico Tullio Gioacchino Visconti
Achille Zavatta
Les Garibaldiens

The mobile app

Simple and interactive, this interactive application allows visitors to geolocate Italian deceased personalities during their walk through the Père-Lachaise Cemetery. When the application is launched, a map appears with the positioning of the different burials. By clicking on one of the positions, a pop-up window appears with a brief description of the character.