Extraordinary exhumations from columbaria, cells or ninety-year-old burials: how they work

Exhumation operations requested by private citizens, rather than planned by the municipal administration, are defined as "extraordinary".

Extraordinary exhumation is the disinterment before the expiry of the artefact from columbaria, cells or ninety-year-old tombs of the body or of the box containing remains or ashes.

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Extraordinary exhumations of bodies cannot be carried out in the following cases:

  • in the period from 20 June to 15 September. 
     

They can be requested in the following cases:

  • transfer of body, bone remains, ashes to another burial in the same cemetery or to another cemetery in Milan, taking into account the availability of existing spaces and the provisions in force, or of another Municipality or State;
  • cremation following burial;
  • entrustment of the ashes;
  • scattering of ashes;
  • renovation or burial operations of the ninety-year-old tomb.

These operations are carried out at the expense of the applicant:

  • €246,50 extraordinary exhumation of a body
  • €105,83 extraordinary exhumation of remains or ashes.

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Updated: 02/01/2024