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The municipal cemetery of Our Father Jesus has been selected to qualify for the prize 'Best Funerary Monument in Spain' that is part of the 2019 Cemetery Contest organized by the national magazine 'Adiós cultural'.

Voting may be held until September 30 at www.revistaadios.es where you can find out the literary and graphic documentation that each candidate has sent to promote the vote to their corresponding category.

After the deliberation, the jury decided that the cemeteries of Murcia, Ciriego, Masnou, Reus, Cañete de las Torres, Villaluenga del Rosario, San Miguel de Málaga, Felanitx, Torrero should be finalists in the category of 'Best Funerary Monument in Spain' in Zaragoza and Bronchales.

The Councilor for Sports and Health, Felipe Coello, has indicated that "this recognition is another step to all the actions we are doing in the municipal cemetery in order to

The Contest of Cemeteries of Spain of the magazine 'Adiós Cultural' is a reference throughout the country among the events related to the funerary culture and with which every year the rehabilitation, education and awareness work carried out by the municipalities from Your cemeteries

The jury, chaired by Cristina de Gregorio, director of Marketing and Communication of Funespaña this year has been composed of Jesús Pozo, Nieves Concostrina, Ana Valtierra, Joaquín Araújo and Mercedes Sanz de Andrés responsible and collaborators of the magazine 'Adiós Cultural', as well as Javier Manzano (Communication Director of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities, FEMP), Antonio Flores (from the Facebook group 'We support the European Cemetery Route') and the artist and writer Marta Sanmamed.

She has acted as secretary of the jury Isabel Montes.

The voting system is very simple.

An email must be introduced (the organization will carry out checks on the accuracy of those emails in order to avoid any possibility of voting fraud) and vote only once for one of the candidates in each category.

Voting results can be viewed in real time on the page itself.

The prizes that are chosen are: € 3,000 for the best cemetery in general, € 2,000 for the best environmental initiative, € 1,000 for the best monument, € 1,000 for the best documented history occurred on the site and € 1,000 for the best activity of Open doors aimed at society.

The applications submitted will be incorporated into the 'Route of Cemeteries of Spain', which can also be accessed through www.revistaadios.es

'Adiós Cultural', a bimonthly publication that has been published continuously since 1996 by Funespaña, announces the contest with the aim of recognizing the historical, social, environmental, artistic and heritage interest of Spanish cemeteries;

claim as places full of life and memories of the people who inhabited them, being a very important part of the city that must be preserved.

It also seeks to raise public awareness of the important heritage that these enclosures house and promote their potential as a tourist resource.

More than 130 years old

The Department of Sports and Health of the City of Murcia manages the Municipal Cemetery, installation with more than 130 years old, and works on the project of transforming this installation into a good of cultural interest, incorporating into the city the wealth it contains and that conforms its history during these last two centuries.

In this sense, one of the last actions carried out has been the accession of the Municipal Cemetery Our Father Jesus to the Association of Significant Cemeteries of Europe (ASCE), composed of 140 members from 99 cities in 22 European countries.

Likewise, the City Council maintains its collaboration agreement with the Murcian Anthropology Society, in force since 2017, to develop actions that publicize the ins and outs of the main Murcia graveyard.

This agreement is intended to enhance the value of the cemetery, being a subject of study and protection and developing guides, conducting guided tours and launching a web page.

With this initiative, the City Council wants to boost knowledge about the past that houses this cemetery, as well as activities and informative publications that encourage the analysis of its cultural history, highlighting illustrious characters whose remains are deposited there.

This cemetery is one of the 34 that exist in the municipality, it is the largest and the only one with municipal ownership.

Our Father Jesus, located in the hamlet of El Puntal (although popularly known as the 'Espinardo Cemetery'), currently hosts 166,000 inhumated people.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia