Cemetery

Luis Domenech y Montaner projected the reform of the cemetery integrating the ruins of the old Gothic chapel in its structure and projecting a new fence full of picturesque elements (pinnacles, crosses kicked, access arch). As a landscape creation, Domench's project aims to emphasize its aspect of ruin, cutting its profiles with the inclusion of the sculpture of the Guardian Angel of Jose LLimona (1894-1985), made of marble and placing it on the walls in the nave of the old church. In addition Domench projects, for the cemetery, the family pantheon of D. Joaquín del Piélago, with the tombstone on the wave twisted by the modernist whip. With a minimal performance he manages to express the sensation of the eternal, the solemn and ambivalent calm of the angel posing like a bird, but also of the outdated through the constant presence of the ruin. Because those ruins had their history: facts that begin with the riot that was organized in the mass of that autumn Sunday already entered the SXVI, when an old woman of the town was forced to abandon the seats reserved to the dukes of the infantado, feudatories of those lands. All together the parishioners swore never to set foot in that church again and decided to build a new one among the living and sheltered from the sea gales, inland, in what today is called Bº la Iglesia. There were lawsuits and more lawsuits and finally it was decided to remove the chair in question but the people had already decided to abandon the old parish and move the cult to the hermitage of S. Juan (which today occupies the Town Hall). It took two or three centuries to build the new church, at the expense of their feast day, and the old church was abandoned.