The Meeting of Heritage Cemeteries 2019

Between November 11 and 16, 2019, the XX Ibero-American Meeting of Heritage Cemeteries will be held in Malaga (Spain).

The main objective of the meeting is to create a space for discussion and reflection on the cultural, touristic and educational use of cemeteries, which will allow new visions and proposals to be obtained in this regard. At the same time, contributions, proposals or personal experiences about history, iconography, art, architecture and urbanism, anthropology, rituals, educational use of cemeteries, etc. are welcome.

Call for papers

Those interested to participate should send their application before Sunday, June 16, 2019, to the email address redcementeriospatrimoniales@gmail.com (Permanent Secretariat Ibero-American Network for the Assessment and Management of Cemeteries).

Details about the meeting and conditions of participation
Registration form for exhibitors

More information

For more information, contact:
Francisco José Rodríguez Marín
fjrodriguez@uma.es
Dptº. de Hª. del Arte
Facultad de Fª. y Letras desp. 211 tfno. 952131738
Facultad de Turismo desp. 31 tfno. 952133244 fjrodriguez@uma.es

or visit the website http://redcementeriospatrimoniales.blogspot.com/

The English Cemetery (Malaga, Spain)

The oldest Protestant cemetery on mainland Spain.

The English Cemetery in Malaga was established in January 1831 at the behest of the then British Consul, William Mark, who successfully appealed to the Governor for a piece of land on which to provide British subjects of the protestant faith with a decent burial.

Important people buried in the cemetery

The first recorded burial was that of George Stephens (Captain of the brig “Cicero”, who drowned in Malaga harbour) which took place on 22 January 1831. This was followed by that of Robert Boyd, executed by firing squad with the Liberal leader, General Jose Maria Torijos, and his followers on 11 December of that year. Subsequent burials of interest include:

• Dr Joseph Noble, Member of Parliament and physician, who died in 1861 the victim of cholera, and in whose memory his family built the Hospital Noble which until recent times served the people of Malaga;

• William Nutter, British landscape painter, died 1871;

• 42 officers and men of the Imperial German Navy sail training ship “Gniesenau”, which foundered outside Malaga Harbour in December 1900;

• George Langworthy, owner of the first hotel to be established in Torremolinos, and which would subsequently lead to the Costa del Sol becoming a popular tourist resort, died 1945;

• 4 Commonwealth War Graves of the Second World War;

• The Finish author and journalist Aarne Viktor Haapakoski, aka “Outsider” and “Henrik Horna”, died 1961;

• The English author and Hispanist, Gerald Brenan (died 1987) and his poetess wife, Gamel Woolsey, an American citizen (died 1968);

• The Spanish poet Jorge Guillen, 1984.

A place of historic and cultural importance

In 2006 agreement was reached with the British government for the ownership of the cemetery to be transferred to The English Cemetery in Malaga Foundation, a Spanish registered charity, whose aims are the maintenance and promotion of the cemetery as a place of historic and cultural interest.

In November 2012, the Andalucian Regional Parliament agreed to the inclusion of the cemetery on the Regional Heritage Register as a monument of historical and cultural interest.

Address

English Cemetery in Malaga Foundation
Avenida de Pries, 1
29016 Málaga
Spain

Contact and website

Phone: +34 952 223 552

www.cementerioinglesmalaga.org