Cemetery in the Town of Comillas
Some of the monuments built at that time where commissioned to Catalan architects and artists.
The cemetery walls with its pinnacles and the main gateway where the work of Lluís Domènech i Montaner, commissioned in 1893 to enlarge and upgrade it. The cemetery was built over an old church of XVth. century and some of its shapes as arches, remain as an ornament and also as a support of one exceptional sculpture - The Angel - made by the Catalan sculptor Josep Llimona i Bruguera. Other pantheons were also designed by Domènech and sculpted by Llimona like the Piélagos family mausoleum. The cemetery is located over a hill close to the sea, being a beautiful element of Comillas landscape.