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Cemetery of La Carriona (Aviles, Spain)
About the cemetery
Some of the heritage resources worth to be highlighted include important hypogea (an underground chamber) and sculptural works, such as those of families Marqués de San Juan de Nieva, Marqués de Teverga, Castro, Zaldúa Carbajal, María Suárez, Bonifacio Heres and the family of the most important local writer, Armando Palacio Valdés. This set of resources is located in the surroundings of the main avenue at the entrance of the cemetery. The Greek cross chapel, design by Ricardo Marcos Bausá, is also remarkable.
Address
Cemetery of La CarrionaLa Carriona 9,
33401 Aviles,
Spain
Contacts
+34 985 11 16 80+34 985 51 02 35
Opening hours
Monday to Sunday: from 9.00 to 19.00Cemetery of San Amaro (A Coruña, Spain)
About the cemetery
A protected heritage site
In fact, for the next years there’s a Renewal Planning (Plan Director) for changing the cemetery paviment, increasing seriously the green area, renewing the furnishing and improving the accesses for handicapped people.
In the other hand, guided tours will be restablished getting better signs elements for helping visitors to see all the prominent vaults and monuments.
Cemetery stories
Address
Cemetery of San AmaroOrillamar street s / n,
Bj. 15002 A Coruña,
Spain
Opening hours
Monday to Sunday from 09:00 to 18:00The Cemetery of Père Lachaise (Paris, France)
About the cemetery
The global fame and reputation of the cemetery is based on its many characteristics:
- It still conserves material testimonies of its first appearance. The history of the foundation of cemeteries during the 19th century has been marked by the Romantic conception of Brongniart and several European burial sites have emulated it.
- It is the last home of many important figures (from Chopin to Jim Morrison) and shelters memorials of great importance (from the “Mur des Fédérés of the Commune of Paris to memorials of concentration camps). The associated monuments are often realized by the greatest artists of all nations.
- The walk through the place is always different and surprising because of numerous extravagant monuments (the smokestack of the Beaujour grave, the telegraph of the Chappe’s tomb, the Allan Kardec’s Dolmen, etc.) and the beauty of the park.
- Last but not least, the cemetery also covers a complete set of funerary buildings, linked to the history and the organisation of the Mortuary Services, such as the Chapel, the Crematorium, the Columbarium and the Boneyard.
Address
The Cemetery of Père Lachaise8, boulevard de Ménilmontant
75020 Paris
France
Certosa Monumental Cemetery (Bologna, Italy)
Beginnings of the cemetery
Already in 1801, the fence at the north of the cemetery was built and decorated with terracotta sculptures by G. Putti, where a new monumental entrance was opened.
The first works included readjustments of the monastery spaces, whilst from 1833 the construction aspired towards a more complex structure, with exedrae, biaxial elements, symmetries aimed at a greater monumental ambition.
Main parts of the cemetery
Between 1816 and 1834 the main rooms of the Certosa were built: the "Hall of the Graves" (in 1816), the "Arcade of the Graves" (in 1833) and immediately after that the "Gemina Hall" and the "Colombario" - an impressive building with three naves inspired by the Roman thermal architecture. The building of the "Elliptical Hall", a small body to connect the nineteenth and twentieth-century group, dates back to 1834, while in 1860 the previous "Chapel of the Suffrages" was turned into the "Gallery of Angels". Soon after this last one, the "Three-Aisled Gallery" was built, connecting the structures built until then.A different interpretation of the spaces started at the beginning of the twentieth century, according to a more monumental and rhetorical viewpoint: significant examples of this period are the "Sixth Cloister" with the "World War I Memorial", the "Eighth" and the "Ninth Cloister", with the annexed galleries. In 1924, the new entrance was built, at the end of the colonnade, near the Reno canal.
Cemetery artwork
Over a period of two centuries many distinguished architects, painters, sculptors worked there, contributing to its unique charm praised to the skies by all its foreign visitors, among whom we may mention Lord Byron and Charles Dickens, Jules Janin, Giacomo Leopardi, Giosue Carducci and many others.
Important people buried at the cemetery
Culural heritage
Address
Certosa Monumental CemeteryVia della Certosa, 18
40133 Bologna
Italy
Contacts and other info
Phone: +39 051 347592 or +39 051 225583 (Museum of the Risorgimento)www.museibologna.it/risorgimento
www.storiaememoriadibologna.it/certosa
AGM 2012 report
Photo exhibition
Conference at AGM
Students as ASCE guides
Students becoming guides
With the students becoming guides, this represented a very special and different experience for visitors, scholars and the schools.
It all started at Pobrežje Cemetery in April, when Pogrebno podjetje Maribor (the cemetery management company) hosted scholars from 2 schools for the cultural day. Scholars were presented with the history of the cemetery and important people burried there.
With an excellent prepared guidance, scholars immediately became aware that cemetery is not just a place of death and sadness. It was a place of many interesting findings and as they have learned about the important people in the cemetery, scholars were actually learning about themselves and their own history.
For many of them, the experience was so impressive, that they have volunteered for becoming guides themselves. Preparations started and soon, they were guiding their first visitors, during the Week of Discovering European Cemeteries (WDEC).
Guided tour at the AGM on September 14, 2012
After the first experience, the youngest guides worked with their english teachers and improved the guidance techniques and knowledge for their big challenge: guiding the ASCE members and partners through the cemetery at AGM 2012.
As it turned out, they were surprisingly relaxed, practical and interesting. Present members enjoyed the easy guidance where scholars presented the most important people of Maribor with just enough facts and interesting stories.
Importance of the project
The project has many important implications and presents one of the best possible ways to get every European citizen in touch with the heritage, preserved in the cemeteries. Because scholars are not the only ones impressed. Their families, friends and many others are now learning from them about the importance of our cemeteries.