General cemetery

Hi everyone! Today’s post is about the General Cemetery of Santiago

This morning I went to the General Cemetery for a work in group with 5 classmates of the university. We are making an ethnographical work about how does people express the popular religiosity in the graves and the memories of their relatives, we are also trying to connect the popular religiosity with the social stratification in the cemetery, and we also want to see how the people keep the memories of the disappeared detainees and the persons executed for political reasons.

The General Cemetery was founded by Bernardo O’Higgins 192 years ago, it was really important in that time because just the Catholic church had cemeteries and the people who were not catholic didn’t had a place to bury their dead. It is placed at Profesor Alberto Zañartu Avenue at the commune of Recoleta, in the subway station called Cerro Blanco.

Nowadays the General Cemetery of Santiago is considerate an open museum, an important historical place because there is a lot of important people of the Chilean history who is in there. Today we went, for example, to the grave of Salvador Allende, Violeta Parra, Manuel Rodriguez, and there are other important places like the “Patio 29” and the memorial.

The General Cemetery is a nice place to visit, everyone should know it.