Colón Cemetery

Main entrance of the Cristóbal Colón NecropolisPhoto © CiberCuba

The Cristóbal Colón Necropolis is a magnificent urban funerary complex covering a rectangular area of 57 hectares. In 1987, it was declared a National Monument of Cuba.

It was designed by Calixto Aureliano de Loira y Cardoso, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. In 1870, this prominent Spanish ar…

Paulito FG's tombstone in the Colón Cemetery includes a heartfelt phrase from his mother

Los Van Van, Mayito Rivera, and Pedrito Calvo sing to Paulito FG from Peru: "Great among the greats."

The remains of Paulito FG are now resting in the Colón necropolis: A massive farewell

The Cuban community bids farewell to Paulito FG with an emotional funeral procession through the streets of Havana

Tree has been over graves in Holguín cemetery for more than a month: “If the living don't care, imagine the dead.”

Cuban visual artist César Leal Jiménez dies in Havana

Followers of El Taiger pay tribute to the musician at the family chapel in the Colón cemetery

The remains of El Taiger and his mother have been transferred to a new chapel in Colón Cemetery

Last farewell to El Taiger: Teresa announces a new date for the transfer of his remains at the Colón Cemetery

Aldo Durades Román, leader of the Bantu Institution of Cuba, has died

A sports journalist travels to Cuba to visit his grandmother's grave and cannot believe what he finds

Cubans bring flowers to El Taiger's grave two months after his death

Teresa shows how the chapel of El Taiger in Havana is turning out: "No one can take this away from you."

Outrageous images from the Colón cemetery: "If there is no respect for the living..."

Yomil pays tribute to El Taiger and El Dany by bringing flowers to their graves

This is the chapel that Teresa acquired for El Taiger to rest in Havana: "This will be his new little house."

Teresa, manager of El Taiger, travels to Cuba and reunites with the reggaeton artist's grandmother

Cubans pay tribute to El Taiger at his grave in Havana

El Taiger and his mother will rest together in a chapel at the Colón Cemetery in Havana

El Taiger's family visits his grave a month after his death

Charly & Johayron bid farewell to El Taiger: "Today was your last goodbye and the beginning of forever."

“Fly, Matador”: The Final Tribute from Cándido Fabré to El Taiger

Singing his music in unison: This is how the Cubans bid farewell to El Taiger at the Colón Cemetery

This is how the graves of Catalina Lasa and Juan Pedro Baró are at the Cemetery of Havana

"Ninjas appear": Warnings about assaults on visitors to the Colón Cemetery in Havana

El Dany's widow transfers his remains due to lack of security at Colón Cemetery

Koffe, the motorcycle dog of Havana, visits the Colón Cemetery

Difficult to locate the grave of Juana Bacallao in the Colón Cemetery in Havana

Human remains are exposed in the Bayamo cemetery

Cuban visits her grandfather's grave at Colón Cemetery and finds many open: "It's sad."

Cuban animal rights activists march for Dog Day to the Colón Cemetery

Sports commentator Yasel Porto returns to Cuba and fulfills his promise to visit the grave of Juana Bacallao

Electric motorcycles were crushed by a Lada following an accident in front of the Colón Cemetery

Workers at Colón Cemetery have to handle the remains bare-handed

Images of Juana Bacallao's wake revealed: an almost empty funeral home

A trench full of bones discovered in the open air at Colón Cemetery

Family members bid farewell to the Cuban writer Newton Briones Montoto in Havana

They are asking for help to care for the dogs at the Colón Cemetery

Exposed bones and desecrated graves in the cemetery of Artemisa

Rescuers who died in a building collapse in Havana are honored in a farewell ceremony

A video of the fire in which a teenager died in Havana has been released

El Micha visits El Dany's grave alongside Yomil

Family who perished in a fire in Havana is laid to rest at Colón Cemetery

Thousands of Cubans attended Colón Cemetery to visit their mothers' graves

Cuban woman visits family mausoleum at Colón Cemetery and is in for a surprise: Not even the bones

Reggaeton artist El Gladiador calls for justice over the deplorable state of cemeteries in Cuba

Chomy Miyar has passed away, a living archive of Fidel Castro

Cubans complain that there are no boxes in Colon Cemetery to bury exhumed remains

Brigadier Generals Enrique Acevedo and Armando Quiñonez die in Havana

Archbishop of Havana officiates mass for the victims of the Saratoga at Colón Cemetery

Deterioration, unpleasant odors, and a shortage of flowers in the Havana cemetery of Colón

Brigadier General of the Reserve of Cuba Arnoldo Ferrer Martínez has died

The coffin of the Cuban bishop who passed away had to be secured with tape

Yomil pays tribute to El Dany 11 months after his death

Widow of El Dany, 9 months after his death: "The more time passes, the more I miss you."

Cuban animal activists celebrate Dog Day at the Colón Cemetery in Havana

Cuban authorities lie: Human remains in the Colón Cemetery dumpster are not an isolated incident

Human bones are thrown into garbage tanks at the Colón Cemetery in Havana

The Colón Cemetery in Havana like you have never seen it before

GALLERY: Cubans bid an emotional farewell to El Dany at the Colón Cemetery