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The only cemetery in Asturias within the European Cemetery Route. Discover its monumental pantheons, marble sculptures and the history of the bourgeois and indiano Avilés of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Highlights

• We will visit the pantheon of the Marquises of San Juan de Nieva.
• We talked about historical memory and the importance of the cemetery in the civil war.
• Its monumentality leaves no visitor indifferent.

Description

The Municipal Cemetery of La Carriona is one of the most unique in Spain. Built by the architect Ricardo Marcos Bausá at the end of the 19th century, thanks to the prosperity of the bourgeois and Indianos who lived in the region, it is the largest open-air museum in Avilés, and constitutes a very important part of the artistic and cultural heritage of the town, not only for its architectural and sculptural elements, but also for its urban planning: it is a whole city, the city of the dead. In our guided visit we will walk through its streets, main and secondary, and we will talk about art, history and memory of the city through its pantheons and the historical figures that rest in them, such as the writer Armando Palacio Valdés, the poets Marcos del Torniello and Ana de Valle or the musician Julián Orbón. There are also sports figures from Avilés: the athlete Yago Lamela and the soccer players Jesús and Enrique 'Quini' Castro. It belongs to the European Route of Cemeteries, is part of the European Association of Significant Cemeteries, and in it we can find works of various styles (from eclecticism and historicism to rationalism, through modernism) made by very important artists of the time, such as Manuel del Busto, Tomás Acha Zulaica, Armando Fernández Cueto, Ángel Arias Falcón or Cipriano Folgueras Doiztúa, whose sculpture for the pantheon of the Marquises of San Juan de Nieva, made in 1902, was awarded the Prize for the best Spanish funerary sculpture by the magazine Adiós Cultural in 2015.

Includes

Spanish accredited tour guide

Easy cancellation

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