From Giovanni Spano we learn that the Old Cemetery of Ploaghe, blessed in 1797, was the first on the island to be built separate from the body of the church. It is located in the area called Cortile de Cheia, bordered by the Rosary Oratory and St. Peter’s Church. The architectural structure is that of a church with an uncovered nave, flanked by six vaulted chapels, three on each side, and closed frontally by the Chapel of the Crucifix. In 1855, following the cholera epidemic, the mayor proposed its expansion, but it was preferred to build one from scratch. The Old Graveyard, restored in 1982 by the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, has preserved intact 29 tombstones written in Latinising Logudorese Sardinian and nine in Italian.
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