The Municipal Cemetery of Castro-Urdiales in Spain (the Ballena Cemetery) has been awarded at a national level in the VII. Historic Cemeteries contest, organized by the magazine Adiós Cultural, in the category for best public activities carried out in the cemetery.
Among the numerous cultural performances at the cemetery (guided visits, dramatized visits, children's cultural notebook, music, and poetry recitals, etc.) the accessible audio-visual guides as well as guides in the sign language that have been designed to visit the Ballena Cemetery stand out. The latter were prepared within the Universal Accessible Tourism project that is being carried out by the Department of Tourism and Heritage.
Through all these activities and with help of new technologies the Ballena Cemetery managed to spread its architectural and artistic qualities among all visitors and eliminate the communication barriers that a few years ago were more difficult to overcome.
You can read more about the award in the original newspaper article (in Spanish) accessible HERE.
*Photo source: www.castro-urdiales.net