Our Lady of Almudena Cemetery, located in the Ciudad Lineal District, is the city’s main necropolis, whose incalculable value comes from its history and the works of art and graves of illustrious people it houses.
The cemetery takes its name from the Virgin of Almudena, the patron saint of the city. In area, it is the largest in Madrid and one of the biggest in Western Europe. Created in 1884, it was officially opened in 1925.
It includes three burial areas: the Civil Graveyard, the Hebrew Graveyard and the Graveyard of Our Lady of the Almudena (Nuestra Señora de La Almudena), where the Garden of Remembrance is also located.
Its 120 acres boast pantheons, chapels and monuments of artistic interest, the oldest of which date back to the end of the 19th century. They include examples of diverse sculptural and architectural styles (neo-gothic, neo-romantic, modernist, neo-classic, eclectic).
The remains of leading personalities lie in this cemetery, such as the writers Vicente Aleixandre (Nobel Prize for Literature), Dámaso Alonso, Pío Baroja or Benito Pérez Galdós; politicians such as Niceto Alcalá-Zamora (President of the Second Spanish Republic), Jose María Gil-Robles, Alejandro Lerroux (ministers of the Second Spanish Republic) or Enrique Tierno Galván (Mayor of Madrid), and artists of the likes of Lola Flores, Estrellita Castro, Olga Ramos, Fernando Rey or Lina Morgan.
