Colon Cemetery, Havana

Colon Cemetery, Havana
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Established1876
Location
CountryCuba
Coordinates23°07′23″N 82°23′55″W / 23.12306°N 82.39861°W / 23.12306; -82.39861
StyleClassical
Owned byRevolutionary government (contested)[a][2][3]
Size49.57 hectares
No. of graves800,000
No. of intermentsover 1 million
Find a GraveColon Cemetery, Havana
Colon Cemetery aerial view. Havana, Cuba. Showing its relation to N-S axis and to the Vedado

El Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón, also called La Necrópolis de Cristóbal Colón,[4] was founded in 1876 in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana, Cuba to replace the Espada Cemetery in the Barrio de San Lázaro.[5] Named for Christopher Columbus, 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 Havana Cathedral or Church Crypts in Havana Vieja.

  1. ^ "Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives One Hundred Fourteenth Congress First Session". Retrieved 2020-02-25.
  2. ^ "Trump Administration Authorizes Lawsuits Against Companies That Deal in Property Confiscated by the Cuban Government and Tightens Other Sanctions Against Cuba". Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  3. ^ "US Allows Lawsuits Relating to "Trafficking" in Confiscated Property in Cuba". Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  4. ^ es:Necrópolis de Cristóbal Colón|«La Necrópolis de Cristóbal Colón»
  5. ^ "Cementerio de la Habana" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-10-31.


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