About the cemetery
The Municipal Cemetery of Granada is part of the landscape and historical monuments of the Alhambra, a short distance from the entrance to the Nazari Palaces.
It features in the list of the city's Bienes de Interes Cultural and hosts, especially in the early gardens, relevant examples of the architecture and funerary sculpture of the Romantic and subsequent periods, all catalogued, as realised by artists, local religious image makers and some significant foreigners.
In the section currently named Patio de San Cristobal, there are the only archaeological remains that have survived, such as the Alixares Arab Palace (XIII/XIV Century), the small fort and the channelling system built by the French at the beginning of the XIX century on the hills by the same name.
The present cemetery can be tracked back to 1787, when King Carlos III enacted the Real Cedula on the use of ventilated cemeteries outside settlements. In 1991, the Town Council funded EMUCESA (Empresa Municipal de Cementerio y Servicios Funerarios de Granada S.A.)
Contacts
Municipal Cemetery of Granada
Paseo de la Sabica s/n.
18009 Granada Spain
Tel. +34 958 221 864
Tel/Fax: +34 958 220 937
e-mail: atencion-clientes@emucesa.es
Website: http://www.emucesa.es
Opening hours:
in summer from 8.00 to 20.00
in winter from 9.00 to 18.30
Office hours:
mon.-fri. from 8.30 to 19.00
saturdays, sundays and holidays from 9.00 to 14.00 from 16.00 to 18.00
Tourist information
http://www.granadatur.com
http://www.andalucia.org
City portal
http://www.granada.org