Cementerio de la Almudena

Not to be confused with Cementerio General de La Almudena.
Cementerio de Nuestra Señora de La Almudena
Northern gate of the cemetery
Interactive map of Cementerio de Nuestra Señora de La Almudena
Details
Established1884
Location
Madrid
CountrySpain
TypePublic
No. of graves5 million

The Cementerio de Nuestra Señora de La Almudena (English: Our Lady of Almudena Cemetery), former Necrópolis del Este (East cemetery) is a cemetery in Madrid, Spain. It is the largest in Western Europe. The number of bodies buried is estimated at five million since it was the main cemetery for the entire city from 1884 to 1973, and from the 1920s was almost the only one for the majority of its former population. A crematorium, the first in Spain, was opened at the cemetery in 1973.

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