Cementerio de la Almudena

The Cementerio de la Almudena, is the largest cemetery in Madrid, Spain. Indeed, although it would be a gross consideration, the number of its "inhabitants" surpasses today the number of inhabitants of Madrid, since it was the main cemetery for the entire city from 1884 to 1973, and from the 1920's was almost the only one for the majority of the population of Madrid. It would be needed to retrieve the correct number, but surely it surpasses 5 million. It is said that it is the most populated cementery in Western Europe and one of the largest.

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Another difference between La Almudena and another main cemeteries of Western Europe is the surprising lack of knowledge of Madrid citizens about its cemetery compared with similar cases in Paris or London. Although modern, XIX century european cemeteries have been developed around a few common patterns (from health policies to reproduction of burgueois social order), the prior differences makes Madrid's cemeteries a quite different case that has another results such as the unique tanatorio funeral home system or the anomycal, monotone South cemetery

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Among those interred here are:

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• Niceto Alcalá-Zamora (1877-1949), president of Spain
• Vicente Aleixandre (1898-1984), poet, Nobel laureate
• Dámaso Alonso (1898-1990), writer
• José Bódalo (1916-1985), actor
• Julia Caba Alba (1902-1988), actress
• José María Caffarel (1919-1999), actor
• Estrellita Castro (1914-1983), singer, actress
• Antonio Flores (1961-1995), rock musician
• Lola Flores (1923-1995), actress
• Antonio Garisa (1916-1989), actor
• Irene Gutiérrez Caba (1929-1995), actress
• Alfredo Mayo (1911-1985), actor
• Antonio Molina (1928-1992), actor
• Juan Carlos Onetti (1909-1994), Argentinian author
• Luis Peña (1918-1977), actor
• Ángel Picazo (1917-1998), actor
• Emiliano Piedra (1931-1991), film producer
• Mari Carmen Prendes (1906-2002), actress
• Mercedes Prendes (1908-1981), actress
• Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), scientist, Nobel prize winner
• Aurora Redondo (1900-1996), actress
• Fernando Rey (1917-1994), Hollywood actor
• Cecilia Sobredo (1948-1976), singer
• Enrique Urquijo (1960-1999), singer
• Frank Yerby (1916-1991), African-American novelist

see also: List of famous cemeteries

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