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Cementerio de la Almudena

Cemetery in Madrid, Spain

Cementerio de Nuestra Señora de La Almudena
Northern gate of the cemetery
Details
Established	1884
Location	Madrid
Country	Spain
Type	Public
No. of graves	5 million
Find a Grave	Cementerio de Nuestra Señora de La Almudena

The Cementerio de Nuestra Señora de La Almudena (English: Our Lady of Almudena Cemetery), former Necrópolis del Este (East cemetery)^[1] is a cemeteryinMadrid, Spain. It is the largest in Western Europe. The number of bodies buried is estimated at five million since it was the main cemetery for the entire city from 1884 to 1973, and from the 1920s was almost the only one for the majority of its former population.^[2]

Notable burials[edit]

• Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926–2014), Real Madrid player
• Niceto Alcalá-Zamora (1877–1949), president of the Second Spanish Republic
• Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984), poet, Nobel laureate^[3]
• Dámaso Alonso (1898–1990), writer
• Ángel de Andrés (1918–2006), actor and theatre director
• Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920), Spanish writer
• Luis Barbero (1916–2005), actor
• Pío Baroja (1872–1956), Spanish writer
• José Bódalo (1916–1985), actor
• Antonia García de Videgain (1850–1924) actress and international singer.
• Julia Caba Alba (1902–1988), actress
• José María Caffarel (1919–1999), actor
• Estrellita Castro (1914–1983), singer, actress
• Salvador Videgain (1886–1947), actor, director, author and producer of theatre.
• Francisco Alonso (1890–1948), composer
• Carmen Sánchez (1898–1985), actress, producer and singer.
• Matilde Muñoz Sampedro (1906–1969) actress
• Antonio Flores (1961–1995), rock musician
• Lola Flores (1923–1995), famous gypsy singer, dancer and actress
• Jean Laurent (1816–1886)^[4]
• Julián Marías (1914–2005), philosopher
• Alfredo Mayo (1911–1985), actor
• Antonio Molina (1928–1992), actor
• Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1994), Uruguayan author
• Luis Peña (1918–1977), actor
• Ángel Picazo (1917–1998), actor
• Emiliano Piedra (1931–1991), film producer
• Mercedes Prendes (1908–1981), actress
• Federico Romero (1886–1976), poet and librettist
• Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), scientist, Nobel prize winner sometimes considered the father of modern neuroscience^[5]
• Olga Ramos (1918–2005), singer
• Marujita Díaz (1932–2015), singer and actress
• Aurora Redondo (1900–1996), actress^[6][7]
• Fernando Rey (1917–1994), actor^[8]
• Evangelina Sobredo Galanes (1948–1976), singer
• Enrique Urquijo (1960–1999), singer
• Frank Yerby (1916–1991), African-American novelist
• José María Alvira (1864–1938), composer
• Laureano López Rodó (1920–2000), Minister of Foreign Affairs during the ruleofFrancisco Franco.^[9]
• Carlos Marín Menchero (1968–2021), singer and producer
• La Chelito (1885–1959), Cuban-born Spanish cuplé singer
• Efrén Rebolledo (1877–1929), Mexican poet and diplomat

References[edit]

• Death of Mary Carmen Prendes www.lavozdegalicia.es/hemeroteca/2002/01/27/932867.html^{[permanent dead link]}

External links[edit]

• Media related to Cementerio de la Almudena at Wikimedia Commons
• Our Lady of Almudena from Paths of the Dead
• Cementerio de la Almudena at GoogleMaps

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