Cementeri General de València
The Cementerio General de Valencia opens the city’s long memory in a quiet neoclassical shell. Located on the Santo Domingo de Guzmán street in Valencia, its origin traces to a 1787 royal measure by Carlos III to curb churchyard burials and public health risks, moving the dead to a purpose-built cemetery outside intramuros. Construction began in July 1805 and the cemetery was inaugurated in 1807, with the municipal architects Cristóbal Sales and Manuel Blasco directing the project. The site originally formed a rectangular enclosure of about 3200 square meters, founded to replace scattered parish and convent burials and even crypts under churches. …
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