Santa Ifigenia Cemetery (Spanish: Cementerio Santa Ifigenia) is a cemetery in

Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. It lies in the southeastern area of the island, some southeast of the Cuban capital of Havana. The municipality extends over , and contains ...

and resting place of a few notable Cubans. The cemetery opened in 1868 to replace smaller Cemetery of Santa Ana. The signature resting place is that of

José Martí José Julián Martí Pérez (; January 28, 1853 – May 19, 1895) was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the libera ...

, whose mausoleum is guarded by three

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at the entrance. Cuban leader Fidel Castro's ashes are also buried at the cemetery. The cemetery is reached by public transit from bus stops across Avenida Capitán Raúl Perozo. Parking is available for buses at the entrance of the cemetery.

Notable burials and memorials

(d. 1895) - national hero * Fidel Castro (d. 2016) - Leader of Cuba and revolutionary * Carlos Manuel de Céspedes * Dominga Moncada, General Guillermón Moncada’s mother * Antonio Maceo - General of the Cuban Independence Army * Facundo Bacardi - Founder of

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Emilio Bacardi Emilio Bacardi Moreau (1844–1922) was a Cuban industrialist, politician, and writer who managed the Bacardi Rum Company and served as the first democratically elected as mayor of Santiago. Biography Emilio was the son of Don Facundo Bacardi Mass ...

- son of the founder of

fortune Facundo Bacardi ** wife Elvira Cape de Bacardi *

Frank País Frank País García (December 7, 1934 – July 30, 1957) was a Cuban revolutionary who campaigned for the overthrow of General Fulgencio Batista's government in Cuba. País was the urban coordinator of the 26th of July Movement, and was a key or ...

(d. 1957) - Cuban revolutionary * María Cabrales, Antonio Maceo’s wife * Mariana Grajales, Maceos’ mother * Nikolai Yavorsky (d. 1947) - Russian born choreographer * Mario Garcia Menocal - Third President of Cuba * Evaristo Estenoz - Leader of the 1912

Negro Rebellion The Negro Rebellion ( es, Levantamiento Armado de los Independientes de Color), "Armed Uprising of the Independents of Color," also known as the Little Race War, the War of 1912, or The Twelve was a series of protests and uprisings in 1912 in Cu ...

* Tomás Estrada Palma - First democratically elected Cuban president *

Compay Segundo Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles (18 November 1907 – 13 July 2003), known professionally as "Compay Segundo", was a Cuban trova guitarist, singer and composer. Biography Compay (meaning '' compadre'') Segundo, so called because he ...

- guitarist, singer, and composer * Pantheon of the Dead for the Defense * Pantheon to the Martyrs of Virginius * Pantheon of the Revolution's Martyrs * The Heroes' Altarpiece * Tomb of Martyrs of San Juan de Wilson

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{{Reflist Cemeteries in Cuba 1868 establishments in Cuba

Notable burials and memorials

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