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The Department of Sports and Health has released today, All Saints Day, a new guide that reveals the ins and outs of the cemetery Our Father Jesus.

This booklet, entitled 'Protagonists of progress' and coordinated by Pedro Martínez Cavero, Klaus Schriewer and Andoni Peñalver Bayle is the fourth visit guide published by the City Council and, on this occasion, presents people from the cemetery whose life tells the story of Murcia.

Thus Murcia have been chosen who have innovated the life of the city as Rogelio Manresa, who promoted the electrification of Murcia;

José Soler Triguero, one of the first managers of Estrella Levante;

the first owner of a car in Murcia, Gerardo Murphy;

or the well-known businessmen Adrián and José Viudes Guirao.

This guide can be downloaded for free on the web https://ayuntamientomurcia-salud.es and get it printed in the cemetery itself.

Councilman Felipe Coello explained that the "City Council of Murcia continues its initiative to value the cultural heritage of this cemetery, boosting their knowledge."

In addition Coello has announced that the next guide will be dedicated to people from other European countries that have settled in Murcia.

The guide presented this morning has been prepared within the framework of the Anthropology of European Societies of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Murcia.

It should be remembered that in the City Council last July he requested 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.

Through this association, the history, architecture and local culture of the adhered cities are made known through different projects such as the inclusion of the European Network of Cemeteries in the World Tourism Organization's agenda, the participation of events Europeans from ASCE, or the incorporation into the EUCEMET project (the first European Commission project dedicated to cemeteries) and to the SYMBOLS project, for the promotion of funerary heritage.

On the other hand, the City Council maintains its collaboration agreement with the Murcian Anthropology Society, in force since 2017, granting a subsidy of 5,000 euros to this institution, which will allow further development of actions that make known the ins and outs of the main Murcia graveyard.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia