Municipal Cemetery of Granada, Spain
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  Serrano family,
Mujer desconsolada (Dejected woman), unknown author

Angel Ganivet's tomb unknown author,
XX century

Melchor Almegro's pantheon
XX century

Montes Escobar family
group of childern
XX century

Pantheon of the Jiménez de la Serna family
with Cristo
Crucificado
(sculptor:
Navas Parejo, 1922)

 

 

The Municipal Cemetery
of Granada is part of the landscape and historical monuments of the Alhambra, a short distance from the entrance to the Nazari Palaces. It features in the list of the city's Bienes de Interes Cultural and hosts, especially in the early gardens, relevant examples of the architecture and funerary sculpture of the Romantic and subsequent periods, all catalogued, as realised by artists, local religious image makers and some significant foreigners. In the section currently named Patio de San Cristobal, there are the only archaeological remains that have survived, such

        

  

as the Alixares Arab Palace (XIII/XIV Century), the small fort and the channelling system built by the French at the beginning of the XIX century on the hills by the same name.The present cemetery can be tracked back to 1787, when King Carlos III enacted the Real Cedula on the use of ventilated cemeteries outside settlements.
In 1991, the Town Council funded EMUCESA (Empresa Municipal de Cementerio y Servicios Funerarios de Granada S.A.)