The Poblenou Cemetery, also known as Cementiri de l’Est (East Cemetery), was the first to be built outside the walls in medieval Barcelona after the parish graves were dismantled. Today, designed in 1819 by the Italian architect Antonio Ginesi after the Napoleonic troops destroyed the old cemetery, falls inside the city borders. The most popular guest in the cemetery is not precisely among the lavish mausoleums but among the modest niches. Alongside the typical guardian angels and other funerary sculptures adorning the mausoleum in the pantheons section is a sculpture called…
