DURATION
1 hour and a half
DATES
Sábados a las 16:30h*
FARES
10€ per person. Children up to 11 years free
MEETING POINT
Cementery main entrance
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Important:
-Este tour sale con un mínimo de 4 personas.
-El recorrido es accesible para personas con movilidad reducida.
-Por normativa municipal no se admiten perros en el recinto.
-Incluye guía oficial acreditado en español.
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THE TOUR
The Cemetery of La Carriona in Avilés, is one of the most unique in Spain. Designed by the architect Ricardo Marcos Bausá at the end of the 19th century, thanks to the prosperity of the bourgeois and Indians who lived in the region, it is the largest open-air museum in Avilés, and constitutes a very important part of the artistic and cultural heritage of the town, not just its architectural and sculptural elements, but for its urban planning: it is a whole city, the city of the dead.
En nuestra visita guiada transitaremos por sus calles, principales y secundarias, y hablaremos de arte, historia y memoria de la ciudad a través de sus panteones y de los personajes históricos que en ellos descansan, como el escritor Armando Palacio Valdés, los poetas Marcos del Torniello y Ana de Valle o el músico Julián Orbón. También se encuentran figuras del deporte avilesinas: el atleta Yago Lamela y los futbolistas Jesús y Enrique «Quini» Castro.
The Municipal Cemetery of La Carriona belongs to the European Route of Cemeteries, is part of the European Association of Significant Cemeteries, and inside it we can find works of various styles (from eclecticism and historicism to rationalism, passing through modernism) made by highly relevant artists of the time, such as Manuel del Busto, Tomás Acha Zulaica, Armando Fernández Cueto, Ángel Arias Falcón or Cipriano Folgueras Doiztúa, whose sculpture for the pantheon of the Marquises of San Juan de Nieva, made in 1902, received the Award of the best Spanish funerary sculpture by the magazine Adiós Cultural in 2015.
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