Eternal Loves

Forty romantic cemeteries: stories of love, memory and devotion written in stone

Eternal Loves is not a travel guide, but it will take the reader far.

Everything begins with a final gift: a message sent by an elderly man with whom the author had long shared stories about cemeteries, prisons and asylums. What follows is the result of years spent visiting cemeteries around the world, in search of true stories of love that endured time, oblivion and, in many cases, death itself.

Blending memory, reportage and reflection, each chapter leads the reader to anonymous graves and famous tombs alike, from Paris to Sarajevo, from San José, Costa Rica, to Tokyo. These are stories of lovers separated by war, social class or family decisions, but also of those who chose not to forget: widowers who still write letters, travellers who leave flowers on distant graves, couples who managed to be buried together after years of separation.

Each cemetery becomes an open letter — intimate, unsettling and quietly moving — reminding us that love, when it is genuine, does not end with death.

Intimate, real-life told through places where absence still speaks. A human and atmospheric approach to cultural heritage.