In Modena, the San Cataldo Cemetery proposes a different way of approaching farewell, conceived as the setting for another kind of urban life. Often regarded as Aldo Rossi's masterpiece – and a built companion to his influential The Architecture of the City – the complex is composed of two linear buildings and the iconic red cubic ossuary, its façades punctuated by seven rows of square openings. Rossi transforms the archetype of the house into a city for the dead, placing new dwellings alongside those of the living. The project won a competition in 1971, evolved over the following years, and finally opened thirteen years later, though it was never fully completed. The result is an architecture of echoes, where monuments, memory and collective imagination converge in a space that feels at once rigorously rational and quietly metaphysical.