The ''Cementerio de Nuestra Señora de La Almudena'' (), former ''Necrópolis del Este'' (East cemetery) is a

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Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, Spain. It is the largest in

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. The number of bodies buried is estimated at five million since it was the main cemetery for the entire city from 1884 to 1973, and from the 1920s was almost the only one for the majority of its former population. Cementerio de la Almudena 04jul07 01

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References

* Death of Mary Carmen Prende
www.lavozdegalicia.es/hemeroteca/2002/01/27/932867.html

External links

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Our Lady of Almudena from Paths of the Dead

Cementerio de la Almudena at GoogleMaps
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