About the cemetery
At the beginning, the Sant Andreu Cemetery, located in Barcelona's Nou Barris district, belonged to Sant Andreu del Palomar, the first town in the Barcelona Plan to have its own cemetery after the construction of Poblenou. When Sant Andreu was incorporated into Barcelona in 1897, the cemetery became municipal property.
The cemetery expanded in 1899, adding 500 new niches with a project by Pere Falqués, and saw further developments in 1913 and 1919, including a new chapel by Agustí Domingo Verdaguer. The current chapel, designed by Ramon Térmens Mauri, was completed in 1958.
The cemetery features a Hebrew section with traditional ground graves and the city's military cemetery, housing the Pantheon of the Soldier for indigent soldiers, attributed to sculptor Frederic Marès and architect Juan Gordillo. The Monument to the Soldier, created in the 1940s, consists of eight graves for Francoist soldiers without burial funds.
Cemetery address
Sant Andreu CemeteryCarrer dels Garrofers, 35, Nou Barris
08016 Barcelona
Spain
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