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I'm vexed. May of the Monuments came to a close today, and the final weekend promised the opening of the cemetery of 366 tombs... a remnant of the Borbonic era, finally used in the cholera epidemic of 1888. For weeks I have been asking various tourist offices where this cemetery is, no-one seems to know. But this morning, bright and early, I set off and walked to the where it was, under a flyover of the ring road.. finally directed by a binman and a hearse driver. Of course it was shut. A very nice man told me that although it had been advertsied in the official literature, in the papers last Thursday and this morning, nobody had had the presence of mind to get authorisation for the opening of what is basically private property. Hence, no cemetery and I had walked kilometres in broiling sun for no reason whatsoever.
What's worse, is that exactly the same thing happened last year with the cemetery at Fontanelle which was advertsied as being open, but eventually declared to be too dangerous to open to the public. Ho hum, .. next year perhaps.