Barcelona Cementiri Sud-Oest

Barcelona Cementiri Sud-Oest: Designed by Leandro Albareda in 1880, this enormous necropolis, sits at the side of the motorway out of town, and is a daily reminder to commuters of their own mortality. The dead were originally placing them in four sections: one for Catholics, one for Protestants, one for non-Christians and a fourth for aborted foetuses. Barcelona Cementiri Sud-Oest now stretches over the south-west corner of the mountain, with family tombs stacked five or six storeys high.


Many, especially those belonging to the gypsy community, are a riot of colour and flowers. The Fossar de la Pedrera memorial park remembers those fallen from the International Brigades and the Catalan martyrs from the Civil War. There is also a Holocaust memorial and a mausoleum to the former president of the Generalitat Lluís Companys.

The cemetery Barcelona Cementiri Sud-Oest is much visited, in particular on All Saints' Day, when the roads are clogged solid with cars. In 2007, modernisation and expansion of the facilities started in order to provide more parking space, flower stalls, a new entrance and, eventually, a new home for the city's collection of funeral carriages at the Barcelona Cementiri Sud-Oest.

Barcelona Cementiri Sud-Oest Address

C/Mare de Déu de Port 54-58
Area Montjuic & Poble Sec
Transport Bus 38 .
Telephone 93 223 16 83
Open 9am-5pm daily.
Admission free.