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The City of Murcia, through the Department of Sports and Health, which runs Felipe Coello, presented the document 'Cemetery as cultural', to commemorate its 130 years of operation.

The project, in collaboration with the University of Murcia and their teachers Klaus Schriewer and Pedro Martinez Cavero, was born with the aim of understanding the Municipal Cemetery of Our Lord Jesus as part of the history of the city of Murcia, of our heritage. "

Coello explained that this document "is intended to initiate a series as a basis for conducting guided tours around the representative funerary architecture of the late eighteenth century to the twenty-first century, and to know the biography and work of writers, poets and visits artists who rely on him. "

Murcia 10 artists and writers are buried in the cemetery, including Gaya, Kose Maria Parraga, Andres Sobejano, Pedro Jara Carrillo and Pedro Cerdan Martinez.

The Cemetery of Our Lord Jesus is a collective monument, which brings together both leading personalities in various areas of the municipality as many Murcia who lived in our city, therefore, has said the councilman of Health, with this project, City Hall Murcia, "wants to recover the cultural values ​​of the graveyard and turn them into history."

The history of the municipal cemetery of Murcia is the story of the modernization of a country and how the City Council at the time, carried out this work, since for the society of the nineteenth century, the cemetery was part of the new city of the new services that were requested of the session;

and should be 'monumental' in cemeteries and funeral as theater or public market.

The councilman of Health has stated that, "Our Lord Jesus is the largest cemetery of the municipality and the only publicly owned, as existing in districts depend on the Bishopric."

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia