El Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón, also called La Necrópolis de Cristóbal Colón, was founded in 1876 in the

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neighbourhood of

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to replace the

Espada Cemetery The Espada Cemetery was located in the Barrio of San Lazaro approximately a mile west of the city walls, near the cove of Juan Guillen and close to the San Lázaro Leper Hospital.Reynolds, Charles B. (1905) Standard Guide to Cuba: A New and Com ...

in the Barrio de San Lázaro. Named for

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, the cemetery is noted for its many elaborately sculpted memorials. It is estimated the cemetery has more than 500 major mausoleums. Before the Espada Cemetery and the Colon Cemetery were built, interments took place in crypts at the various churches throughout Havana, for example, at the

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or Church Crypts in

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Overview

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 La Recoleta in

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. Prior to the opening of the Colon Cemetery, Havana's dead were laid to rest in the crypts of local churches and then, beginning in 1806, at Havana's newly opened

located in the Barrio de San Lazaro and near the cove of Juan Guillen close to the San Lázaro Leper Hospital and the Casa de Beneficencia. When locals realized there would be a need for a larger space for their community for the deceased (due to a cholera outbreak in 1868), planning began for the Colon Cemetery. 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 main entrance is marked by a gateway decorated with biblical reliefs and topped by a marble sculpture by

José Vilalta Saavedra José Villalta Saavedra (born January 27, 1862, Havana, - died March 16, 1912, Rome) was a Cuban sculptor. One of the first native Cuban sculptors, Villalta was a mulatto born in Havana. Thanks to private patrons, he was able to train in Europe, ...

: 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 Habana Vieja caught fire in 1890 Colon Cemetery, Havana NECorner May 7, 1949

Colon Cemetery, Havana NECorner May 7, 1949

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 Il Duomo in

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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 50,000 hectares. The area of the cemetery is defined by rank and social status of the dead 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. 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. 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 tombs of exiled families, whose problems with caring for their dead have been complicated by residency outside of Cuba since the Revolution of 1959.

History

María Argelia Vizcaino writes:

"The first stone was placed on October 30, 1871 and before its extension completed in 1934, it had a capacity of 504,458.22 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”.

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 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."

Design

The Cementerio Colón measures 620 by 800 meters (122.5 acres). Designed by the Galician 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

El Vedado Vedado ( es, El Vedado, ) is a central business district and urban neighborhood in the city of Havana, Cuba. Bordered on the east by Calzada de Infanta and Central Havana, and on the west by the Alemendares River and Miramar / Playa distri ...

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, Juan José Sicre, and others. 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. 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. The cemetery is laid out roughly on a north–south axis, parallel to the last stretch of the

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, and against the street grid of

. It is on the north axis, thus its main streets are on the four cardinal points of the compass. Symbolized by a

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, 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).

Entrance

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 in length, and 2.50 in thickness, executed with variations by Eugenio Rayneri Sorrentino for and eventually crowned, by

, by the sculptural group Fe. Esperanza y Caridad ( Faith, Hope and Charity). The first stone for its construction was placed on October 30, 1871, since 1868 burials have been carried out.

Interments

The Colon Cemetery has a monument to the firefighters who lost their lives in the great fire of May 17, 1890. As

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is a leading sport in Cuba, the cemetery has two monuments to baseball players from the

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. The first was erected in 1942 and the second in 1951 for members of the

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. In February 1898, the recovered bodies of sailors who died on the

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battleship ''

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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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. Also buried here are three British Commonwealth servicemen who are commemorated by the

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; a Canadian Army officer of

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, and a

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officer and

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seaman of

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. The remains of the casualties are located in the mausoleum of the Anglo-American Welfare Association, with the names inscribed on the central memorial which also forms the entrance to the underground ossuary.

Notable interments

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Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt (December 28, 1879 – March 20, 1963) was a Cuban prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Havana from 1941 to 1963. He raised to the rank of cardinal in 1946. Biography He was born in Camagüey, ...

(1879–1963), Roman Catholic Cardinal *

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(?–1952), baseball manager *

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(1923-2020) singer, actress, vedette. *

Beatriz Azurduy Palacios Beatriz Azurduy-Palacios (b 1952 in Bolivia - July 20, 2003 in Havana, Cuba) was a Bolivian motion picture director. She was married and worked with Jorge Sanjinés for over 28 years. Biography Among the works she contributed to, either as produ ...

(1952–2003), filmmaker * Hubert de Blanck (1856–1932), composer *

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(1931–2006), Black Panther Party member *

José Raúl Capablanca José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he is widely renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play. Capablanc ...

(1888–1942), world chess champion, nickname Mozart of Chess * Federico Capdevila (1845–1898), officer of the Spanish army who in 1871 defended Cuban students of medicine in court *

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(1880–1948), baseball player *

Juan Chabás Juan Chabás (September 10, 1900, Dénia – October 29, 1954) was a Spanish-born poet and writer. He was a member of the influential group of writers known as the Generation of '27. He fled to exile in Cuba following the Spanish Civil War. In 193 ...

(1910–1954), author *

Eduardo Chibás Eduardo René Chibás Ribas (August 15, 1907 – August 16, 1951) was a Cuban politician who used radio to broadcast his political views to the public. He primarily denounced corruption and gangsterism rampant during the governments of Ramón Gra ...

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(1927–2005), singer * Candelaria Figueredo (1852–1914), patriot in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain *

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(1833–1915), physician and researcher * María Teresa Freyre de Andrade (1896–1975), librarian *

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(1836–1905), Dominican military hero * Rubén González (1919–2003), pianist *

Nicolás Guillén Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (10 July 1902 – 17 July 1989) was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.

(1902–1989), poet *

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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (; December 11, 1928 – April 16, 1996) was a Cuban film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed more than twenty features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolu ...

(1928–1996), filmmaker * Harrison E. Havens (1837–1916), United States Congressman *

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(1928–2001), photographer *

Pío Leyva Pío Leiva (May 5, 1917 – March 22, 2006) was a Cuban singer and the author of the guaracha ''El Mentiroso'' ("The Liar"). Leyva was part of the Buena Vista Social Club, and composed some of Cuba’s best known standards. Biography Leyva was bor ...

(1917–2006), singer *

José Lezama Lima José María Andrés Fernando Lezama Lima (December 19, 1910 – August 9, 1976) was a Cuban writer, poet and essayist. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Cuban and Latin American literature. His novel ''Paradiso'' is one of ...

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Dolf Luque Adolfo Domingo De Guzmán "Dolf" Luque (August 4, 1890 – July 3, 1957) was a Cuban starting pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to . Luque was enshrined in the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1957 and the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in ...

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starting pitcher *

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(1887–1960), Major League Baseball outfielder *

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(1899–1934), Cuban writer and revolutionary leader * Mary McCarthy Gomez Cueto (1900–2009), Havana socialite, musician, impresario, and Roman Catholic philanthropist * José de la Caridad Méndez (1887–1928),

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s pitcher, nickname Black Diamond. Member Baseball Hall of Fame. Cooperstown. * Laura Meneses (1894–1973), Cuban Revolution activist *

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(1877–1954), Cuban League Baseball Player *

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(1900–1958), singer, actress, pianist, vedette *

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(1928–1961), American adventurer, Grave Memorial 6392190 * Pelayo Cuervo Navarro (1901–1957). Presidential Palace Attack, Havana *

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, (1936–2019), Roman Catholic Cardinal * Fernando Ortiz (1881–1969), ethnomusicologist * Agustin Parla Orduña (1877–1946), aviator, member of

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* German Pinelli (1907–1996), journalist, actor *

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(1915–1948), musician, pioneer of Afro-Cuban jazz *

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(1927–2015), pianist and bandleader * Eligio Sardiñas Montalvo (1910–1988), word boxing champion, nickname Kid Chocolate. * Dr. Francisco Taquechel (1869–1955), notable doctor, founder (1898) and director of the Farmacia Taquechel, Old Havana *

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(1893–1938),

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Lola Rodríguez de Tió Lola Rodríguez de Tió,This name uses Spanish marriage naming customs; the first is the maiden family name ''"Rodríguez"'' and the second or matrimonial family name is ''"Tió"''. (September 14, 1843 – November 10, 1924), was the first Puerto ...

(1848–1924), Puerto Rican poet * Alberto Yarini (1882–1910), notable illegitimate businessman

Gallery

File:Cementerio Cristóbal Colón, Calle Zapata towards 23, Havana, Cuba.jpg, Cementerio Cristóbal Colón

Notes

References

External links

Panoramic photo of the Colon Cemetery

Mapa del cementerio Colon

Colón Cemetery

Necropolis Cristobal Colon

Why you should visit Colón Cemetery in Havana?

The Secret Behind the Colón Cemetery in Havana
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