If you travel to Florence and visit the Basilica of Santa Croce find the tombs of great men in history ... but you will find a surprise: the Tomb of Dante Alighieri, the greatest Italian poet of history.
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/mynth/2663986424/
Surely, if you know anything about the history of Florentine know who was exiled for life of Florence, under penalty of death if he stepped town ... and you wonder: How is it that his tomb is here ... and the answer is simple: your body is not here ....
This particular tomb is what they call a Cenotaph. This is an empty tomb, a monument of funeral character in honor of a person or persons in this case, is Dante Alighieri, symbolic type. The word comes from the Greek Kenos which means "empty" and thapos, which means "grave" ...
The real tomb of Dante is in Ravenna, a city in northern Italy ....
On this particular page, you can find a little more information about the construction of this tomb ...
http://eltranshiveriano.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/ravenna-tumba-de-dante/
http://rodrienbologna.blogspot.mx/2012/05/un-dia-en-ravenna.html
http://erasmusu.com/en/erasmus-ravenna/erasmus-photos/tumba-de-dante-114334
Note: Photos are not my responsibility, at the foot of each page where I put them out, informational purposes only, not profit ...
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