WDEC 2025 in Madrid

The 2025 Madrid Book Fair highlights Europe’s Cultural Routes through a special photo exhibition, featuring the European Cemeteries Route among others.

About the exhibition

On June 1, 2025, the annual Madrid Book Fair was officially inaugurated and will continue welcoming visitors until June 15 in the iconic Retiro Park. This year’s edition not only celebrates literature but also shines a spotlight on European cultural routes.

In order to give visibility to the cultural routes in Spain, highlight their European dimension, and showcase the work carried out by each route, an exhibition has been installed along the Paseo de Coches del Retiro. It features various panels dedicated to different cultural routes of the European Community. Among the displays is one representing the European Cemeteries Route, illustrated by the striking image of The Kiss of Death (one of the most photographed funerary sculptures in Europe) located in the Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona.

This project aligns with the ASCE Week of Discovering European Cemeteries, drawing attention to cemeteries not only as resting places but also as open-air museums that reflect artistic, historical, and social legacies.

Series of conferences of Cementiris de Barcelona: Remembering Sabater Pi

Join us on the 26th of September and you will learn, from the hand of his son, Josep Oriol Sabater, and his grandchildren, the adventures of the one who discovered Snowflake, the famous albino gorilla of the Barcelona zoo.

The conference, which will take place in the chapel of the Poblenou Cemetery, will begin at around 6.30 pm after a guided tour of the cemetery.

The event is co-organized by the magazine Sàpiens and Cementiris de Barcelona and is open to everyone.



Reservations should be made in advance by calling 934 841 920.

Hour of beginning of the act: 18:00

Meeting point: Main entrance of Poblenou Cemetery

Celebrating the 200th birthday of the Poblenou Cemetery

The big day of the Poblenou Cemetery is approaching. The oldest cemetery in Barcelona 200 years ago and we want to celebrate it with all of you.

To pay tribute to this very special date and to open the cemetery even more to the city, on September 29th an event is held that arrives loaded with workshops, activities and performances. Added to this are the different events that the funerary enclosure organises throughout the year (dramatised visits, conferences, guided tours...).

You will find the program of the event at this link.

Instagram contest in Poblenou Cementery night tour

Next Wednesday 26th October Cementiris de Barcelona invite you to the night tour in Poblenou Cemetery.

Night Route in Cementiris de Barcelona

Cementiris de Barcelona organize a new edition of the night route in the Poblenou cemetery.