Saint Eufrasio cemetery

It was opened in 1829 by Manuel López Lara. It has a mix of different kind of art: neoclassic, neogothic, neobizantisim, etc.

It has a part which was built in the second half of the 19th century specific for people that committed suicide, weren’t catholic or weren’t baptized. There are also mausoleums of Jewish and Muslim people. There is also a part reserved to rich and important people. For example, in this cemetery is buried the economist Flores de Lemus, Condes de Humanes, or Prado y Palacios, that was a minister of the king Alfonso XIII.

This cemetery was very important in the 30s, because of the Civil War in Spain. There a lot of people were murdered on the walls and in other parts of the graveyard. There is a common grave for the republicans executed by Franco’s troops. In this common grave and the firing line, there is a monument in memory of the dead republicans in the civil war (1936-1939) and dictatorship (1939-1975).

As this cemetery was too old, the latest people that were buried there was in the year 2003.