The land on which the Cemetery lies was owned by Efisio Cabras, mayor of Selargius in 1853.
When it was consecrated as a burial ground, the first person buried there was the grandson of the Cabras family, who died in April 1866.
The entrance consists of an imposing wrought-iron gate supported by pillars symbolizing the passage to the afterlife.
In the central driveway is the small church of Santa Maria, built in the mid-19th century and blessed on April 2, 1866.
Leaning against the chapel of Santa Maria is a dark marble plaque in memory of Antonio Gallus, a lieutenant colonel in the Italian Air Force who passed away on Sept. 2, 1981.
The cemetery houses, in its oldest part, sepulchral works of great artistic value: marble sculptures, bronze statues and an important chapel dating from after 1894 and belonging to the Putzu-Loddo family.
