WDEC 2022 in Santander

On June 4, 2022, a spectacular night event entitled "The Night of the Muses" will celebrate art in all its forms at the Municipal Cemetery of Ciriego in Santander (Spain).

The Night of the Muses

Once again, the Municipal Cemetery of Ciriego resumes visits to its necropolis. This sixth edition is entitled "The Night of the Muses" and it is included within the events of the Week of Discovering European Cemeteries 2022.

The event will take place on June 4, 2022, at 21.30, in the Municipal Cemetery of Ciriego.

Program

The muses will be the ones to guide us through the Ciriego cemetery. The necropolis will be the inspiration for the artists. Let's not lose sight of Urania (muse of Astrology) who will prevent us from getting lost in the network of streets and alleys of Ciriego. With Erato (muse of poetry) we will remember one of our most beloved poets, Pepe Hierro. Terpsicope (muse of dance) and Euterpe (muse of music) will accompany us to our "little amphitheater". Polimnia (muse of the lyric) will show us the charm of silence and voice and, finally, Clio (muse of history) will take us to the place where stories never were.

Participants

This evening would not have been possible without the collaboration of: 

• Víctor Aja (musician),
• Inés Fonseca (composer, singer and writer),
• Ana Alonso de la Fuente (percussion),
• the Cristina Arte dance company (Cristina Arce, Nuria Blanco and Maria Dubarbie),
• Telmo Menéndez (actor),
• the Children's Choir "Colegio San Agustín" directed by Laura G. Ortigosa and accompanied by Javier Rapado (lute), Cristina Medina (piano), Zaida Díez (guitar) and Laura Sánchez (ukulele),
• Belén de Benito (photographer),
• muses-dancers: Carlota Argos, Telma Madrazo, Irene Cuevas, Marina Navarro, Celia Herrera and Lucía Martín
• "azafat@s": Ana Rumayor, Paula Gómez, Victoria Gómez and Alvaro Redruello.

Acknowledgments

Finally, we would like to thank the Cántabro Group for its sponsorship and the collaboration of: Strong, the Ataulfo Argenta Conservatory, Musical San Fernando, Contracorriente Producciones, the Pepín Nereo Group, the Official College of Architects of Cantabria, the Image Documentation Center, Allegra and the Dance School MyC.

*Main photo source: www.cementeriodeciriego.es

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Municipal Cemetery of Ciriego (Santander, Spain)

The Municipal Cemetery of Ciriego was projected in 1882 by the municipal architect Casimiro Pérez de la Riva to replace the old Necropolis of San Fernando.

About the cemetery

Ciriego developed an articulate space in the central part. It contains a framework of streets that organize the burial space in blocks, in whose interior the land for each proprietor is delimited. 

Casimiro Pérez de la Riva (1851-1934), arrives in Santander after studying at the Architecture School and winning the third medal in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts to occupy the posotion of municipal architect of the city. One of his first works will be this cemetery. In his "Memory about the construction of a new cemetery in Santader", he puts forward the union of the hygienic, legislative and religious principle. The most famous architects, foremen and marble workers in the region like Manuel Casuso Hoyo, Valentín Ramón Casalís, Miguel Doncel, Alfredo de la Escalera or Emilio de la Torriente will work in the graveyard. Their creations are representative of the architectonic typologiers coming from the contemporany funerary world at the moment in Spain. An ensemble that De la Riva defined like: "a marvellous museum of historic and artistic monuments" was created.

The different repairs that the cemetery has undertaken throughout the last century have been made by some of the main municipal architects in the city. Some of them previously mentioned such as Valentín Casalís in 1900; Javier G De Riancho in 1933; contractors like Manuel Ruiz Lanza in 1944 and Miguel Saiz de Cubria in 1927- that developed the access to the enclosure.

Since 1991, the cemetery management is under the Society Garden of Cantabria.

Address

Municipal Cemetery of Ciriego
San Román de la Llanilla (Ciriego)
39012 Santander Spain

Contacts

Phone: 0034942331987
Fax: 0034942321999
Email: cjc@cementeriodeciriego.com

Website: www.cementeriodeciriego.es

Tourist information

www.ayto-santander.es
www.tusantander.es