Grave of Carlo Levi

Carlo Levi's grave lies in the village cemetery at the edge of Aliano, looking out over the calanchi — the extraordinary badland landscape of eroded clay gullies and ridges that he described so vividly in "Christ Stopped at Eboli." The headstone is simple, and the grave is kept with care by the community.

The cemetery visit is a short, quiet detour from the main village street. Combined with the museum, it completes the sense of Aliano as a place that defined a writer and that the writer, in turn, defined. The views from the cemetery edge over the calanchi and the surrounding hills are as good as any in the area.

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When Carlo Levi died in Rome in 1975, he had specifically requested to be buried in Aliano rather than in Turin. The village — remote, poor, largely unknown to the world until his book — had marked him more deeply than anywhere else in his life. His grave in the village cemetery has become a small place of literary pilgrimage.