Galicia: the persistence of rural cemeteries
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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/3250Keywords:
cemetery, Galicia, tradition, parish, topological analysis, rural landscapeAbstract
The rural Galician world is one of the few places in the XXI century world, where death is normally distanced from day to day living, where the graveyards continue to persist. These funerary compounds maintain the mediaeval tradition of the funerary space associated and in continuity with churches. The rural population, resisting by all possible means to the removal of the cemeteries from urban areas, keeps on maintaining a strong relationship with their forefathers.
This article deals with the architectural analysis of these spaces, in a topological perspective, because of the evocative image that the church-graveyard unit manifest in the rural landscape. Its relation with the church and urban center are analyzed and summarized in a typological classification that filters the specific cases of study.
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