American Battle Graves Archive

Florence American Cemetery

Florence, Italy

4,402

Graves

1,409

Tablets of the Missing

70 acres

Acres

About this cemetery

The Florence American Cemetery holds the graves of 4,402 American dead, most of whom died in the fighting that followed the capture of Rome in 1944 and the advance through the Apennines.

Location & directions

The cemetery lies south of Florence, on the west side of the Via Cassia.