Poblenou cemetery, the cemetery for Barcelona’s rich and powerful

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Poblenou cemetery, also known as the Old cemetery, as opposed to the New cemetery, which was Montjuïc, or the East cemetery, was originally outside the city walls.

Cultural heritage

Walking between works of art

It is a veritable open-air museum: the monumental mausoleums, the marble sculptures, the layout and the decoration of the site are the work of some of the best sculptors and architects of the 19th century.

The first part, which follows the design of the Italian architect Antonio Ginesi, has a Neoclassical style and is laid out symmetrically around two streets in the form of a cross, producing four blocks. A monument to the victims of the Yellow Fever epidemic in 1821 stands at the crossroads.

The cemetery of the powerful classes

In 1849 the architect Joan Nolla was commissioned to create a second part, exclusively for well-off families.Here members of the most powerful dynasties in Barcelona are buried and there are many valuable sculptures from the second half of the 19th century, in Neoclassical, Modernista and eclectic styles.

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