Cemetery of La Carriona (Asturias)
Asturian historical heritage treasures one of the most outstanding cemeteries in Europe. It is the cemetery of La Carriona, a space designed by the architect Ricardo Marcos Bausá, located in the city of Avilés, and inaugurated in the year 1890. This Avilesian cemetery is characterized by its multiculturalism, trace of a moment in which the Indians and the merchants with South America wanted to capture the prosperity they had achieved in their respective professions. La Carriona has a central chapel surrounded by wide avenues. In them are some of the best funeral sculptures in Spain, such as the statue of the angel of the crypt of the Marchioness of San Juan de Nieva.
