San Miguel Historical Cemetery

Antonio María Álvarez, Cirilo Salinas, Rafael Mitjana, José Trigueros

1810

Address: Main entrance. Plaza del Patrocinio, 8 - 29013, Málaga

Saturday, May 11th:10:00h; 11:30h; 13:00h; 16:45*.

Person in charge of guiding the visit: *The first three turns of visit will be guided by students of the degree in Art History and the degree in Tourism of the University of Malaga. The last tour will be guided by Francisco José Rodríguez Marín, professor of the Department of Art History and president of the Spanish Network of Heritage Cemeteries.

VISIT WITHOUT REGISTRATION, WITH LIMITED CAPACITY.

It is NOT necessary to present your ID card for this visit.

We recommend arriving in advance, our volunteers will be waiting for you at the meeting point. Access on a first-come, first-served basis, until full capacity is reached.

After the royal decree of 1787, signed by Carlos III, the localities began to look for locations for the installation of their new necropolis. In Malaga several provisional cemeteries were proposed, blessing the lands of the new one of San Miguel Arcángel in 1810, although, in 1805 burials began to be carried out in it. In the 1820s, the old cemetery was enclosed with rows of niches paid for by the city's brotherhoods and sisterhoods. In 1837 the inauguration of its chapel, dedicated to Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, took place. In 1848, the appearance of the cemetery changed completely after its division into plots by the architect Rafael Mitjana; these plots were mainly acquired by bourgeois families, who built their pantheons in the first and third courtyards in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. After its closure in 1987, these are the only spaces that have been preserved for historical-artistic criteria.