{"id":7836,"date":"2014-08-11T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T08:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2015-03-18T12:39:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T11:39:23","slug":"a-route-through-the-cemetery-of-poblenou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/a-route-through-the-cemetery-of-poblenou\/","title":{"rendered":"A route through the cemetery of Poblenou"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people may think is\u00a0a bit spooky visiting a cemetery, but it shows you more clearly than any other monument how is a a city or a country, its\u00a0religion, its burial customs, its relationship with life and death, its people and its architecture. So from ShBarcelona<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0we suggest you visit the\u00a0Poblenou Cemetery<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, one of the best known of the city, by day or by night following one of these routes.<\/p>\n

\"foto_5_pn\"<\/a>Daytime routes<\/strong> can be made throughout the year and include a tour of the Barcelona-nineteenth century through the various pantheons where\u00a0celebrities are buried. This route is short, but very useful to\u00a0quickly evoke 100 years of history, from 1775 (when the Climent bishop blessed the new funerary facilities) until 1888, when the Universal Expo\u00a0was held. 29 pantheons properly marked are visited along the route.<\/p>\n

\"DSCN69661\"<\/a>The night tour<\/strong> is done only once a year, on the Day of All Saints, on the 1st of November, and goes\u00a0through various costumed characters who tell the audience the history and culture of this cemetry, always linked to the city of Barcelona. This activity is free but you must book to attend calling to\u00a0+34 93 484 19 99.<\/p>\n

A bit of\u00a0history…<\/strong><\/p>\n

This cemetery was originally thought as a solution to the problems of unhealthy due to crowding of the population within the walled city. It was opened in 1775<\/strong> by the bishop Josep Climent i Avinent near the Mar Bella Beach, is currently located in the Taulat Street number 2. The premises were destroyed by Napoleon’s troops and in 1813 Antonio Ginesi<\/strong>, an Italian architect, built the new enclosure with neoclassical forms and egalitarian space burials, which reflects the aesthetic tastes and political aspirations of the wealthy \"foto_8_pn\"<\/a>merchants and manufacturers in Barcelona at that time. Years later, in 1821<\/strong>, the cemetery was completely filled due to the cholera epidemic that caused thousands of deaths. In 1849<\/strong> came the most important Poblenou Cemetery remodelling when Joan Nolla built the enclosure of the pantheons, where the works of renowned sculptors and architects of the time is shown. In these pantheons\u00a0it is clear that the Catalan bourgeoisie<\/strong> of the time (XIX century) wanted\u00a0to display their wealth even when they were death\u00a0through opulent graves in which they were buried.<\/p>\n

Finally, in 2004 Cemeteries Route arises in Barcelona<\/strong>, in which tourists and local people may know more deeply the history of the city through the spaces in which we bury our loved ones.<\/p>\n

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Some people may think is\u00a0a bit spooky visiting a cemetery, but it shows you more clearly than any other monument how is a a city or a country, its\u00a0religion, its burial customs, its relationship with life and death, its people and its architecture. So from ShBarcelona\u00a0we suggest you visit the\u00a0Poblenou Cemetery, one of the best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[615],"tags":[644,55,54,56,17,62,63,57,59,882,883,65,584,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7842,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions\/7842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}