WDEC2015 - Discovering Turin's Monumental Cemetery (Italy)
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| Family Grave: Brondelli di Brondello Artist: Giacomo Ginotti picture by: Simona De Pascalis |
Special guided tours through the emotion of the discovery of art and history at the Monumental Cemetery of Turin (Italy) in the Week of Discovering European Cemeteries.
Saturday 30th of may:
10.30 am
A walk to the Monumental between curiosity and celebrities Reservations at the telephone number +39.349.570.511.8
1.45 pm
The Holy Shroud through the works of the Monumental
Reservations at the telephone number +39.339.605.736.9
2.00 pm
The route of Resistance in World War II
Reservations at the telephone number +39.347.312.041.9
3.00 pm
Crumbs of history.
Reservations at the telephone number +39.347.487.627.7
Saturday 31st of may:
11.00 am - 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm
Representation of the sacred rituals of the Jewish tradition inside the cemeteries. Reservations at the telephone number +39.347.489.166.2
1.45 pm
The Holy Shroud through the works of the Monumental
Reservations at the telephone number +39.339.605.736.9
2.30 pm
The Monumental revealed: wandering among the friendly graves of the cemetery
Reservations at the telephone number +39.339.388.598.4
WDEC 2015 - Night guided tour at at the Cemetery of Ciriego
Join us on the night guided tour entitled “Heroins. Portraits of women in the face of adversity” (Heroinas. Mujeres ante la adversidad).
WDEC 2015 - guided walk at Varaždin Cemetery
Guided walk named "Revived Past" will take place on 2nd June 2015 at 11.00 am. It is organized by the students of secondary school of Business and Tourism Varaždin and Parkovi Inc.
WDEC 2015 - Guided walk at historic Mõigu Cemetery
Estonian Heritage Society invites to guided walk at historic Mõigu Cemetery on 27th of May at 16.00.
WDEC 2015 - Guided walk at the Old Cemetery of Podgorze
As every year, association PODGORZE.PL invites you to a guided walk at Old Cemetery of Podgorze (Stary Cmentarz Podgorski, Krakow, Poland).
Municipal Cemetery of the Capuchins (Mataró, Barcelona)
The Catholic cemetery of the Capuchins began to provide services in 1817 and today consist of 13.612 graves.
About the cemetery
The Catholic cemetery of the Capuchins (Cementiri Municipal dels Caputxins) began to provide services in 1817, when members of the Board of Works of Santa Maria started to be buried at the top of the convent’s grounds. This area was then purchased by the Capuchin community in 1820. The rest of the estate of the Capuchins (including the ruins of the convent, abandoned because of the fire in 1835), was expropriated by the state and auctioned in 1844 as a “Bé Nacional” (National asset) where it was purchased by the Board of Works of Santa Maria. The same year, Miquel Garriga i Roca designed a new cemetery and a few years later, in 1876, the construction started. The new cemetery was located next to Catholic cemetery (recognized as the Protestant or Spiritualists cemetery). In 1982, the Catholic Church offered both cemeteries to the City Hall, which were then merged under the name Municipal Cemetery of the Capuchins.
Basic data
The Cemetery of the Capuchins is a municipal and civil cemetery, owned by the Mataró City Hall (Spain), managed by Cementiris Metropolitans CGC, S.L. and protected by the Local cultural heritage for the Government of Catalonia. It extends on the surface of 34.243 m² and holds 13.612 graves, of which 61 Pantheons, 56 Tombs and 13.497 Niches. The deceased are mainly Catalans of catholic religion.
Important graves and monuments
Some of the graves and monumenst on Municipal Cemetery of the Capuchins with historical and cultural meanings are:
- Josep Puig i Cadafalch: He was born in Mataró and he was a “modernista” architect, the Catalan Art Nouveau, who designed many significant buildings in Barcelona like Casa Amatller, near the Casa Batlló, one of the most important buildings designed by Antoni Gaudí. Josep Puig i Cadafalch was the President of the Commonwealth of Catalonia (1917-24). He died in 1956 in Barcelona.
- Miquel Biada i Bunyol: He founded in 1848 the first railway line in the Iberian Peninsula and that connected Barcelona with Mataró. However, he died 6 month before the inauguration so he couldn’t see his work.
- Pantheon Marfà - Mesquera: Pantheon designed by Emili Cabanyes, 1906.
- Josep Castellà i Vilà: He was a boat captain who transported people to New York, Cuba and Mexico during the war between Spain and USA. He repatriated soldiers after de Cuba’s war. He died in 1916 in Barcelona.
- Domènec Rovira i Castellà: He was a young musician, an excellent pianist and the director of the Municipal Band of Mataró (1939-1944). He died in 1944, when he was 31 years old.
- Tomb of the International Brigades: Monument in memory for the international brigades that fought against fascism and dead in Mataró during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
- Eugeni Pere Cendoya Oscoz: He was an important architect and disciple of Lluís Domènech i Montaner, who was highly influential on “Modernisme català”, the Catalan Art Nouveau. He died in 1975 in Barcelona. The sculptor was Frederic Marès, a famous sculptor who was made a lot of urban sculptures in Barcelona.
*Photo source: www.cementeriosvivos.es
Cemetery address
Carretera de Cirera, 239,08304 Mataró
Barcelona
Spain
Contacts
Tel: +34 93 7574767Fax: +34 93 7986905
Email: administracio@cementirismetropolitans.com
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