The ''Cementerio de Nuestra Señora de La Almudena'' ( en, Our Lady of Almudena Cemetery), former ''Necrópolis del Este'' (East cemetery) is a

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Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

, Spain. It is the largest in Madrid and one of the largest in

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. The number of people buried is estimated to be about five million, larger than the population of Madrid itself, since it was the main cemetery for the entire city from 1884 to 1973, and from the 1920s was almost the only one for the majority of the population of Madrid. Cementerio de la Almudena 04jul07 01

Capilla del Cementerio de la Almudena (Madrid) 01

Notable burials

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References

* Death of Mary Carmen Prende
www.lavozdegalicia.es/hemeroteca/2002/01/27/932867.html

External links

*
Our Lady of Almudena from Paths of the Dead

Cementerio de la Almudena at GoogleMaps
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