Christopher Columbus Cemetery (Cemetario de Colon)

Cemetery Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón in Havana

The famous cemetery Cementerio de Cristóbal Colon in Havana was founded in 1876 and is named after Christopher Columbus. The cemetery (of 57 acres) is known for its many elaborate memorials and has more than 800,000 graves. The cemetery is so large that roads are built between the graves. We saw a funeral where the family was driving in a bus behind the deceased. There are a lot of famous Cubans buried here. We have visited the grave of Ibrahim Ferrer, the lead singer of the Buena Vista Social Club.
It`s estimated that today the cemetery has more than 500 major mausoleums, chapels, and family vaults. At the cemetery is a famous legend associated with a mother. who died in childbirth.
The baby was in a coffin buried next to her but when the skeletons were excavated the baby lay on her chest. Since then it`s a place of pilgrimage for Catholics. The Colon cemetery has a 23 meter high monument to the firefighters who lost their lives in the great fire of May 17, 1890.
Baseball is a leading sport in Cuba and the cemetery has two monuments to baseball players from the Cuban League. The first was built in 1942 and the second in 1951 for members of the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame. The cemetery is well maintained.

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CUBA 2017: Necrópolis Cristóbal Colón in Havana / Colon Cemetery

Wikipedia: The Colon Cemetery, or more fully in the Spanish language Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón, was founded in 1876, Cuba on top of Espada Cemetery. Named for Christopher Columbus, the 140 acre (57 ha) cemetery is noted for its many elaborately sculpted memorials. It is estimated that today the cemetery has more than 500 major mausoleums, chapels, and family vaults.

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The tallest monument in the Christopher Columbus Cemetery in Havana, Cuba recognizes the sacrifice of firefighters.

CUBA: EXPLORING the COLON CEMETERY in HAVANA, one of world's most spectacular ✝️

SUBSCRIBE: - Let's go visit the spectacular Colon Cemetery (or more fully Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón) which was founded in 1876 in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana, Cuba. Named for Christopher Columbus, the 140 acre (57 ha) cemetery is noted for its many elaborately sculpted memorials. It is estimated that today the cemetery has more than 500 major mausoleums, chapels, and family vaults.
Colon Cemetery is one of the most important historical cemeteries in the world and is generally held to be the most important in Latin America in historical and architectural terms, second only to La Recoleta in Buenos Aires.
Cuba is a Caribbean island nation under communist rule. It has sugar-white beaches and is dotted with tobacco fields, which play a part in the production of the country's legendary cigars. The capital, Havana, is lined with pastel houses, 1950s-era cars and Spanish-colonial architecture in the 16th-century core, Old Havana. Salsa music plays in the dance clubs and cabaret shows are performed at the famed Tropicana.
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Famous Cemetery Series: Colon Cemetery, Havana, Cuba

Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón
Colon Cemetery is one of the greatest cemeteries in the world. It is the second largest cemetery in Latin American next to the La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Buried there are many famous Cubans. Its beautiful sculptures, mausoleums, and monuments make it an open-air gallery of art where visitors can appreciate its beauty while experiencing the history of Cuba.


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Under the tropical sun and the royal palm trees lies the Colon Cemetery, named after Christopher Columbus.
Founded in 1876, Colon Cemetery is enormous with 140 acres.
It is one of the great historical cemeteries of the world, and the second largest in Latin America.
It is known for its elaborate sculptures and mausoleums.
Among the 2.5 million buried here are famous Cubans, politicians, military heroes, revolutionists, artists, writers, scientists and athletes.
It is a catalog of those prominent in the history of Havana.
The largest structure is the monument for the firefighters who lost their lives in the great fire of 1890.
Memorial for veterans of the war of independence.
Monument dedicated to the fallen soldiers of the revolutionary armed forces.
To make ends meet some families resort to selling their ancestral tombs.
Colon Cemetery has become a tourist attraction for its historic significance and its haunting beauty.

Necrópolis de Cristobal Colón - Cementerio de la Havana . Cemetery.

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Cuando este de vacaciones en Cuba, no debes dejar de visitar esta Necrópolis. Situada en el centro del Vedado capitalino, exactamente ocupa la calzada de Zapata y calle 12. Podrás llegar hasta aquí si tomas un taxi o una guagua recto por la avenida 23, hasta la concurrida esquina de las calles 23 y 12; desde aquí podrás ver el enorme pórtico que sirve de entrada al cementerio de Colón, como usualmente es llamado por los habaneros



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Cristóbal Colón Cemetery, Havana (Cuba) - In Another Minute (317)

- - The Cristóbal Colón Cemetery (span.: Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón) in Havana, Cuba, is one of the most significant cemeteries in Latin America - both historically and architecturally. The Cristóbal Colón Cemetery in the Vedado neighborhood was built in 1876 and designed by the Galician architect Calixto Arellano de Loira y Cardoso. He died during the initial construction and was the first to be buried at the cemetery. The graveyard was named after Christopher Columbus (span.: Cristóbal Colón), who landed in Cuba on October 28, 1492.

Today, the site spans 140 acres (57 ha) and holds 800,000 graves and 1 million interments - many of them in the 500 major mausoleums, chapels, and family vaults.

To me the most visually striking aspect of the site are all the beautiful statues, combining elegance with grief and hope. These are common to many larger Christian cemeteries, of course. More unusual and just as impressive

Unfortunately, I didn't have much time to explore this city of the dead because I had a husband and Classic Car Taxi driver waiting for me outside. So in this video I can only show you impressions from the areas close to the entrance.

The cemetery is divided into quarters by major avenues. And those sections are divided again by the status and professions of the deceased. From what I understand some tombstones and buildings are in disarray - but I didn't get to see anything like that during my short visit. Knowing that many Cubans and their off-spring live in exile, it saddens me to think of how many people are not able to visit and maintain the memorials of their family and ancestors.

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Soon I will publish more photos of Cristóbal Colón Cemetery on my personal blog and on Flickr (links below).

Other videos from my Cuba trip in April:

Trinidad de Cuba (Cuba) – In Another Minute (Week 313)


Trinidad de Cuba (extended version)


La Habana Vieja, Old Havana (Havana, Cuba) – In Another Minute (314)


Malecón (Havana, Cuba) – In Another Minute (Week 316)


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Havana Cuba pt 2 - Christopher Columbus Cemetery Tour

This is part 2 of my Havana trip and includes taking a tour of the Christopher Columbus Cemetery in Havana. It is part of a collection of videos from my first trip to Cuba.

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Grave Ibrahim Ferrer on cemetery Cementerio de Cri‏stóbal Colon in Havana

The famous cemetery Cementerio de Cristóbal Colon in Havana was founded in 1876 and is named after Christopher Columbus. The cemetery (of 57 acres) is known for its many elaborate memorials and has more than 800,000 graves. The cemetery is so large that roads are built between the graves. We have visited the grave of Ibrahim Ferrer, the lead singer of the Buena Vista Social Club. There are a lot of famous Cubans buried here.

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Havana cuba Christopher Columbus cemetery NCL tour

on our NCL sky trip to Cuba we took the history tour about 4 hours very interesting this stop was the Christopher Columbus cemetery
the most interesting part were all the old cars hanging out there

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The Colon Cemetery or more fully in the Spanish language Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón was founded in 1876 in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana, Cuba on top of Espada Cemetery. Named for Christopher Columbus, the 140 acre (57 ha) cemetery is noted for its many elaborately sculpted memorials. It is estimated that today the cemetery has more than 500 major mausoleums, chapels, and family vaults.
Colon Cemetery has a 75-foot (23 m)-high monument to the firefighters who lost their lives in the great fire of May 17, 1890. As baseball is a leading sport in Cuba, the cemetery has two monuments to baseball players from the Cuban League. The first was erected in 1942 and the second in 1951 for members of the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame.
In February 1898, the recovered bodies of sailors who died on the United States Navy battleship Maine were interred in the Colon Cemetery. In December 1899 the bodies were disinterred and brought back to the United States for burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
With more than 800,000 graves and 1 million interments, space in the Colon Cemetery is currently at a premium and as such after three years remains are removed from their tombs, boxed and placed in a storage building.



Het Necropolis Cristóbal Colón is een begraafplaats en open lucht museum. Het is een van de beroemdste begraafplaatsen in Latijns-Amerika, bekend om zijn pracht en praal. De begraafplaats is gebouwd in 1876 en heeft bijna een miljoen graven.

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SUBSCRIBE: - Let’s view one of the most magnificent monuments in one of the largest cemeteries in the Americas, the Necropolis Cristobal Colon in Havana, Cuba. It is renowned for its striking religious monuments and for thousands of elaborate marble statues.

Havana is Cuba’s capital city. Spanish colonial architecture in its 16th-century Old Havana core includes the Castillo de la Real Fuerza, a fort and maritime museum. The National Capitol Building is an iconic 1920s landmark. Also in Old Havana is the baroque Catedral de San Cristóbal and Plaza Vieja, whose buildings reflect the city’s vibrant architectural mix.

Cuba is a Caribbean island nation under communist rule. It has sugar-white beaches and is dotted with tobacco fields, which play a part in the production of the country's legendary cigars. The capital, Havana, is lined with pastel houses, 1950s-era cars and Spanish-colonial architecture in the 16th-century core, Old Havana. Salsa music plays in the dance clubs and cabaret shows are performed at the famed Tropicana.
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Colon Cemetery, Havana, Cuba

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Necropolis Colon Cemetery Havana Cuba

The Colon Cemetery, or more fully in the Spanish language Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón, was founded in 1876 in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana,

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Established in 1876, the Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón was named after Christopher Columbus and designed by a Madrid-educated Galician architect by the name of Calixto Arellano de Loira y Cardoso. Built around a central chapel that was loosely modeled after the Florence Cathedral (aka “Il Duomo”), the 150-acre cemetery is laid out in a grid of main central avenues and smaller side streets. As planned by Loira, the layout organizes the occupants of the cemetery according to their rank and social status, with the wealthy and well-connected occupying prominent spots on main thoroughfares while more lowly individuals (such as the condemned, victims of epidemics, and “pagans”) are relegated to the “suburbs.”
Colón Cemetery contains over 500 major mausoleums, chapels, and family vaults, with styles running from renaissance to neoclassical to art deco. In addition to the countless stunning examples of funerary architecture, unique sites include: an elaborate 75-foot-tall memorial for firefighters who died in a disastrous citywide fire in 1890. The very first occupant of Colón Cemetery was the architect Loira himself, who died before the project was finished.

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Cuba Columbus Cemetary/Cementerio Colon, Habana Cuba

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