Cementerio Municipal Nuestra Sra. del Remedio

Religious

The municipal cemetery of Alicante Our Lady of the Remedy, whose construction began in 1918 according to project of the municipal architect Francisco Fajardo Guardiola, came into operation in 1925, although an epidemic of influenza occurred in the same year 1918 forced to establish a mass grave despite the facilities had not been inaugurated yet. In 1931 the management was definitively transferred to the new premises of the Cemetery Square, after the closing of the old San Blas Cemetery. Inside you can find, among other elements and assets of interest for its architecture, both funerary and historical: the crypt-pantheon, built once the Civil War ended, the wake hall or the historical artistic cemetery. There are many illustrious citizens from Alicante buried in the municipal cemetery, such as the poet Miguel Hernández, Jose María Py, who was the founder of the Bonfires of Alicante, the architect José Guardiola Picó or the painter Gastón Castelló. From the administration office, located next to the main entrance of the cemetery, the attention to the necessary public is offered, both at the orientative level to be able to move by the different zones of the enclosure, and as of procedure and administrative management in funeral matter.