Confessions of a Clumsy Scot

Back in June, Dean and I had the most amzing wee holiday to Lloret De Mar in Girona, Spain.

The trip was specifically to go to the Formula at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona but we had three days to ourselves and did a little bit of sight seeing around the village. I say village because it’s not a city, but when you’re trying to walk aroud in average 30 degree temperatures, it feels like you’ve walked miles.

We came across the Cementiri Modernista or the modernist cemetery which I found really fascinating.
The whole cemetery is based of societal hierarchy, with the large tombs dedicated to the upper class, paprticularly the those who funded the cemtery, then as you walk round to the rear of the tombs you will come across those that are second and third class. This runs around in a circle of the cemetery. As the cemtery was built in the 19th century, the population would have been much smaller so each family had a dedicated tier and over the years the gravestones were added to with the younger family members.

As the cemetery came from the parish church of Sant Roma, the majority of those buried in the cemtery were worshippers or connected to the church however there is a large section in the cemetery for those who were not baptised or were believed to be non worshippers of Sant Roma.

The church was built with the name ‘City of the Dead.’
As you walk through you’ll notice it was designed to literally be a city for the dead with avenues, promenades, squares and miniature city blocks.

I just found the whole place really fascinating and intriguing reading some family stories and history. You’ll also find a huge different aray of different organisations that people were connect to such as the Knights Templar, Priory of Sion or the Order of Calatrava.

It’s also really unique to see how things like a cemetery differentiates so much in different countries. I appreciate they were all built in different times and to commemorate different events but the architechture and designs are all so different.