How to find a grave in Barcelona?

Question

A relative of mine lived many years in Barcelona, Spain and died there. I am quite sure she is buried there too but do not know in which cemetery nor even how many cemeteries there are there.

I found some descriptions of Barcelona's cemeteries, such as Poblenou and Montjuïc at The Culture Trip, and several others elsewhere, but no comprehensive list.

Where might I obtain a complete listing of Barcelona's cemeteries (preferably with officials to contact about visiting arrangements and other enquiries)?

Answer 1

There is a company handling all cemeteries in Barcelona. Its name is Cementiris de Barcelona.

From their website:

Cementiris de Barcelona, S.A. is part of the B:SM Group. It manages the new cemeteries in the city of Barcelona, Montjuïc, Poblenou, Sant Andreu, Les Corts, Collserola, Horta, Sants, Sarrià and Sant Gervasi, as well as the two crematoriums situated in Montjuïc and Collserola. Its main objectives are to focus the running of the cemeteries and all their activities on the users, to improve personalized attention, to provide quality funeral services that involve the transfer the deceased persons to our cemeteries, and to disseminate the culture and the history of the cemeteries.

If you browse through it you can find a section Services → Location deceased in which a form is displayed so that you can look for a deceased.

I don't know how well this can work, but it definitely works like the place to start looking from.

If you know where in the city was your relative living, you can more or less guess where she was buried. However, as you see from the quoted text, there are not that many cemeteries in the city, so you can do search for your relative's name in each one of them.

I did a basic research on a very common Spanish name, Carlos Garcia, in the cemetery of Montjuïc and got a nice page with 28 results

The page results are in Catalan, but it is not difficult to understand:

Resultats

Premi al damunt del difunt sel.leccionat, d'entre les 28 semblances trobades:

Cognoms, Nom Núm Pis Tipus Agrupació

Which translates to:

Results

Select one of the decesead from the 28 matches that were found:

Surnames, Name Number Floor Type Group

When you click the name, you get to a page with a very complete map on the position of the grave within the cemetery.

Answer 2

You could always look for the deceased note, there's always a published note, paid by the familiars or by the agency.

This database holds up to 17K pages of deceased notes just in Barcelona, you might be lucky. They usually tell where the person was buried, prepared, or incinerated, and from there's, you're a Google and a call away for them to look to your relative in their files.

http://www.rememori.com/buscar/donde:Barcelona

Answer 3

All the links in the answer by fedorqui are now obsolete. They take you to non-existing pages or to the new CBSA home page. Fortunately, there are different resources, such as:

Suggestion form, which I have used, but unluckily could not locate the grave

Send email to cbsa@cbsa.cat, which I finally did

In addition to that, you have phone numbers +34 934 841 999 / +34 934 841 991. If you prefer, you can go to their offices:

• Carrer Joan d´Àustria, 130 (Oficines centrals) 08018 Barcelona