The construction project was made by the municipal architecht of the time: Ricardo Marcos Bausá, who also worked in the Escuela de Artes y Oficios and El Muelle park.
He later worked in Madrid, along with Arturo Soria, in the design of the “Ciudad Lineal”. The new cemetery project was approved in 1884 and from 1885 to 1888 the works of grading and closing were made. The walls surrounding the cemetery were built by craftsmen from the city using stones from the nearby quarries in Bustiello and Pillarno and which cost 600,00 euro, a significant amount for the time.
Square planned, of “Mediterranean” style, the different spaces in the necropoli are distributed around its main avenue. There are two houses – one for the concierge and one for the chaplain -, an utopsy room, a chapel, etc. of eclectic style and simple decoration. Crowns of flowers, the coming of the death, the journey through the other life, lit torches or sandclocks can be seen in the main door and the closing walls.
The cemetery opened on the 1st October 1890 and it was a very important social event in a city that was living a prosperous time.
Square planned, of “Mediterranean” style, the different spaces in the necropoli are distributed around its main avenue. There are two houses – one for the concierge and one for the chaplain -, an utopsy room, a chapel, etc. of eclectic style and simple decoration. Crowns of flowers, the coming of the death, the journey through the other life, lit torches or sandclocks can be seen in the main door and the closing walls.
The cemetery opened on the 1st October 1890 and it was a very important social event in a city that was living a prosperous time.
