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The Protestant Cemetery in Rome is a different place. Different than the ancient monuments, the Baroque churches, the bustling commercial life. Tucked away behind the Pyramid of Cestius, it is lush and crowded with slabs of silent stone remembering the dead, mostly English and Americans who came to Rome, stayed for a while, and died.…http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3205/3075814039_a06e260019.jpg