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Cementerio Civil(Buñol)

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In the cemetery of Buñol, more specifically in its civil, non-religious part, there are important pieces of evidence of the presence of Freemasonry in the town and in the region. The cemetery, created in 1886, has 435 tombs with a "particular and complex" symbolism. Freemason burials continued during the Franco regime, engraving symbols on the tombstones of their graves, evading the intelligence services of the regime that persecuted them viciously. From its inauguration in 1886, until 1914, the date of the expansion of the secular space, those people whose beliefs and ideology did not agree with the Catholic Church chose to be buried there, not in the so-called sacred places. Curiously we can observe, drawn in the frontispiece, the Masonic symbol of the triangle and the compass, representing the light and the construction of the Universe. The Civil Cemetery of Buñol is likely to have been for years one of the oldest precincts in which non-believers were willingly buried. In general, civil cemeteries were the shame of the families of those left there.
During the Franco dictatorship was a particularly bad time and the civil cemetery was considered "non grato" although it did not stop being used as such.

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