The other eleven cemeteries of Zaragoza

Although the bulk of the activities on the occasion of all the saints are developed in the Cemetery of Torrero -mañana, remember, the Tenorio is represented- there are other eleven fields in Zaragoza that may be more unknown but not less interesting.Managed by the neighborhood boards, in collaboration with the corresponding church or brotherhood, they all keep the memory of the deceased and each of them has their singularities.

At the end of the 18th century and for unhealthiness reasons, corpses were stopped bury.Most of them correspond to rural neighborhoods, in which fossal were made “in ventilated places that cannot damage the health of the neighborhood”, read in a chronicle of 1854 on the funeral complex of Alfocea.

Perhaps the best known after Torrero - and old.It is documented that, at least, since 1791 the Hospital of Our Lady of Gracia (known as Provincial) had a small field in this place, which today is owned by the Provincial Council of Zaragoza.It is on the Castellón road, next to the progress garages, and it is easy to intuit its exact location since high cypresses stand out after a coqueta Tapia.They say that it was planned to create it next to the imperial channel, but Ramón Pignatelli himself gave up some land from his family near the Cartuja de la Concepción to move him away from his hydraulic work.In this enclosure the remains of, among others, among others, Mayor Francisco Caballero or Dr. Félix closed and his great ‘but’ is that all tombs are acquired and that he barely has space for hypothetical expansion.

A couple of years ago the City Council of Zaragoza edited the book ‘History of the cemeteries of the neighborhoods of Zaragoza’, the result of the research work of the art historian Isabel Oliván.The heritage expert offers curiosities of history and, also, the georeferenced planes of all these "Gardens of Memories".

Some details?One of the most striking is that of Alfocea, which is qualified as a good of cultural interest (BIC) for erecting in a small hill next to the ruins of the castle.In these days of ‘Halloween’, more than one American screenwriter would be inspired seeing how part of the fortified tapials are reused to house niches.They also say that the original strength was in the offensive line during the conquest of Zaragoza in 1118 and that, after the death of Alfonso I the battler, passed to the order of the Temple.

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The first references to the Cemetery of Casetas date from 1845 when the town had only 110 neighbors.After the arrival of the railroad, the number of inhabitants shot and, consequent.The field moved and expanded a long time later based on a project by the architect Ricardo Magdalena and it was not until 1914 when the remains of the original cemetery were exhumed to take them to the new.

The name of Magdalena is linked to the design of many other funeral complexes around the city, as does that of Dionisio Casañal, because in its 1892 parcel plans they already appear, for example, the spaces for inhumations of Monzalbarba.It is curious how years before, in 1886, the local priest, Joaquín Fuertes, wrote to the mayor of Zaragoza asking for the construction of a new complex because what was in the neighborhood "more than a cemetery" was "a sarcasm to death".It stands out of this space, which was managed by the brotherhood of San Blas, the pantheon of the grace family or the burial of Felipe Carbonell, with a garland of flowers from the sculptors of Buzzi and Gussoni, who were also those who also transferred the monument of the monument of the monument ofTorrero's common grave, which is now celebrated by the centenary.

Another funeral wake of singular beauty is the one in the cemetery of San Juan de Mozarifar and that represents a kneeling woman with a lamp.It is a Borobio Regino design and it is the best sculpture of an enclosure - from the city of transport - that sinks its roots there by 1728, when it is cited a dimensions of “10 by 3 rods”, little more than acorral.

As can be seen from these examples, most of the cemeteries of the rural neighborhoods were consecrated 200 years ago and the main references of their origins are thanks to the thorough Geographer Pascual Madoz.They were managed by the brotherhoods or parish joints of the past before moving to municipal hands.The only ones who are not owned by the City Council are those of La Cartuja (DPZ) and that of tick.

Curious is the case of Juslibol, whose cemetery since the mid -nineteenth century followed "modern hygienist currents".Of course, shortly after, seven neighbors were constituted in the association of ‘dissident Christians’ and claimed in 1894 the creation of a civil cemetery.There was a certain stir and a lot of public debate and, although the proposal was approved, it was at the expense of a future extension that never arrived.