The Praise cemetery Located in San Salvador, El Salvador. It is located next to La Bermeja cemetery and is part of the general cemetery in San Salvador.
On August 26, 1849, Bishop Tomás Occeli devoted the general cemetery as El Salvador’s first civilian cemetery. Mausoleum by the president of the Federal Republic of Central America, Francisco Morazán, whose residues had been taken from Costa Rica, was already there. After the funeral of President Manuel Enrique Araujo in 1913, the area’s name was changed to “Pantheon of Los Grandes Hombres”, but it eventually became known as “Los Ilustres.”
The cemetery contains a number of white marble sculptures and elegant mausoleum that stores the remains of members of Rich San Salvadoran families. Many of the pieces were ordered from well -known artists such as Francisco Durini in other countries, especially in Genoa, Italy. A number of angel figures in different attitudes exist; Religious themes that La Piedad; Some of the monumental scale and others with special characteristics that represent the family’s family rank or background in life. Many of these have been intervened in the local environment and popular consciousness. Among these are the statues of Luperca breastfeeding Romulus and Remus in the Italian Assistza grave (popularly known as “La Loba”) and “La Novia”, a sculpture by Lidia S. Cristales de López, who died six months after marrying in 1924.
In addition, an airplane in the grave to the pilot Enrico Massi; a motorcycle on top of a cemetery; A sculptures called the “Gemini”, where an angel seems to take two little sisters to carry them with them, where the angel holds it less and gives the older arm and so on.
Since 2001, there has been a proposal in the legislative congregation to convert this space into cultural heritage, but it has not succeeded. Many figures have been severely eradicated or seriously injured as a result of vandalism and unfavorable weather. In 2009, however, the mayor of San Salvador adopted a regulation that appoints this section as a “protected zone.”
Address: San Salvador, El Salvador
