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Colon Cemetery, Havana

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386:, it represents the four directions of the earth and the spread of the gospel to all directions as well as the four platonic elements. We find Greek crosses against a yellow background along the perimeter fence enclosing the cemetery, as well as part of the design diagram of the cemetery, which employs several Greek crosses at different scales thus forming an architectural tapestry. The main avenues, Avenida Cristobal Colón, Obispo Espada, and Obispo Fray Jacinto, at six hundred by eight hundred meters, is the first cross at the scale of the city (red cross-areal photo). 296: 198: 850: 46: 336:"The first stone was placed on October 30, 1871 and before its extension completed in 1934, it had a capacity of 504,458 square meters. Rectangular in shape as a Roman-Byzantine-style Roman camp, with sidewalks, streets and listed roads, facilitating access to the visitor, (which in republican times was provided with a free map). Enrique Martínez y Martínez tells us in «Cuba Arquitectura y Urbanismo»: “It was the most remarkable religious construction that was made in the city during the nineteenth century”. 1239: 395: 838: 350: 2434: 1247: 288:: Faith, Hope and Charity. Some of the most important and elaborate tombs lie between the main gate and the Capilla Central. The Monumento a los Bomberos (Firemen's Monument) built by Spanish sculptor Agustín Querol and architect Julio M Zapata, commemorates the twenty eight firemen who died when a hardware shop in La 870:
This theft of private property led the U.S. into severing diplomatic relations in 1961 and installing the trade embargo and various sanctions against Cuba. "Thousands of Americans and Cuban citizens suffered humiliation and financial distresses of having their private property stolen from them, some
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is the octagonal Capilla Central (central chapel), the Capilla del Amor (Chapel of Love), built by Juan Pedro Baró for his wife Catalina Laza. On every side rectangular streets lead geometrically to the cemetery's 50 hectares. The area of the cemetery is defined by rank and social status of the dead
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The square located on the central street between the chapel and the huge doorway was called Christopher Columbus, because it was planned to erect a monument to the Discoverer next to the remains, which ironically never happened of the Cathedral of Havana, being the first bust erected throughout the
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Yet, for all its elegance and grandeur, the Colon Cemetery conceals as much as it displays. Empty tombs and desecrated family chapels disfigure the stately march of family memorials even in the most prominent of the avenues, and away from the central cross-streets are in ruin. Many of these are the
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The design follows the custom of laying out the plan with five crosses formed by perpendicularly intersecting streets. The two main avenues give rise to the central cross, each of the four resulting spaces, called barracks, is subdivided in turn by two other streets that intersect at right angles.
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by numbered and lettered streets it becomes an urban microcosm of the city. The cemetery contains works by some of the most distinguished Cuban artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Miguel Melero, José Vilalta de Saavedra, Rene Portocarrero, Rita longa, Eugenio Batista, Max Sorges Recio,
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The Colón is a Catholic cemetery and has elaborate monuments, tombs and statues by 19th and 20th century artists. Plots were assigned according to social class, and soon became a means for patrician families to display their wealth and power with ever more elaborate tombs and mausoleums. The north
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architect Calixto Arellano de Loira y Cardoso, a graduate of Madrid's Royal Academy of Arts of San Fernando, who became the Colón's first resident when he died and before his work was completed. It was built between 1871 and 1886, on former farmland. Laid out in a grid similar to
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Calixto Arellano de Loira y Cardoso was also the designer of the main portal, of Romanesque inspiration. It is 21.66 meters high, 34.40 meters in length, and 2.50 meters in thickness, executed with variations by Eugenio Rayneri Sorrentino for and eventually crowned, by
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with distinct areas: priests, soldiers, brotherhoods, the wealthy, the poor, infants, victims of epidemics, pagans and the condemned. The best preserved and grandest tombs stand on or near the central avenues and their axes.
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With more than 800,000 graves and 1 million interments, space in the Colon Cemetery is currently at a premium and as such after three years remains are removed from their tombs, boxed and placed in a storage building.
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Five squares are formed at the intersections, the main one of which is the Central Chapel, with an octagonal floor plan and surrounded by portals, a Loire project completed with modifications by Francisco Marcotegui.
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The Colon Cemetery is one of the most important cemeteries in the world and is generally held to be one of the most important in Latin America in historical and architectural terms, second only to
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continent (1828) and the only one that exists in the whole world with a beard. So the cemetery dedicated to the great Admiral, full of famous sculptures lacks one by which he was given his name."
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In front of the main entrance, at the axes of the principal avenues Avenida Cristobal Colón, Obispo Espada, and Obispo Fray Jacinto, stands the Central Chapel modelled on
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were interred in the Colon Cemetery. In December 1899 the bodies were disinterred and brought back to the United States for burial at
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tombs of exiled families, whose problems with caring for their dead have been complicated by residency outside of Cuba since the
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The Colon Cemetery, Havana NE Corner (Calle 18 and Calle N Calzada Zapata and San Antonio Chiquito and Calle 29. May 7, 1949
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The Colon Cemetery has a monument to the firefighters who lost their lives in the great fire of May 17, 1890.
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main entrance is marked by a gateway decorated with biblical reliefs and topped by a marble sculpture by
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The cemetery is laid out roughly on a north–south axis, parallel to the last stretch of the
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The Cementerio Colón measures 620 by 800 meters (50 hectares, 122.5 acres). Designed by the
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Colon Cemetery aerial view. Havana, Cuba. Showing its relation to N-S axis and to the Vedado
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with whom she led the struggle for Puerto Rican independence, and Cuban Revolution activist
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is a leading sport in Cuba, the cemetery has two monuments to baseball players from the
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Also buried here are three British Commonwealth servicemen who are commemorated by the
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of them at gunpoint. Today there has been no justice for that their claims."
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pitcher, nickname Black Diamond. Member Baseball Hall of Fame. Cooperstown.
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In February 1898, the recovered bodies of sailors who died on the
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Cities of the Dead: The Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón
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Index

Cementerio Cristóbal Colón
Espada Cemetery

Vedado
Havana
Cuba
Coordinates
23°07′23″N 82°23′55″W / 23.12306°N 82.39861°W / 23.12306; -82.39861
Find a Grave
Colon Cemetery, Havana

Vedado
Havana
Cuba
Espada Cemetery
Barrio de San Lázaro
Christopher Columbus
Havana Cathedral
Church Crypts
Havana Vieja
La Recoleta
Buenos Aires
Espada Cemetery
Barrio de San Lazaro
San Lázaro Leper Hospital
Casa de Beneficencia
José Vilalta Saavedra
Habana Vieja

Il Duomo

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