Neoclasicismo, cementerios e Ilustración en Cuba en las primeras décadas del siglo XIX

Abstract

The history of funerary architecture in La Habana begin with the construction of the Cementerio General (1806), promoted by the basque bishop Juan José Díaz de Espada, first graveyard built in Hispanoamérica, after the Real Cédula of Carlos III dated on the third of April of 1787. For their contents, all municipalities must to construct municipal graveyards in remote sides from the urban areas and ended with the tradition of burying in churches and convents.This initial funerary area, today disappeared, was built by French architect Étienne-Sulpice Hallet, figure barely studied in the Cuban context. He introduced the neoclassicism in the Cuban architecture. This communication presents an introduction of the developmentof illustrate ideas in Cuba and the diffusion of the neoclassicism as dominant style in the funerary architecture of the island, during the firsts decades of XIX century.