The most visited tombs in Catalonia

All Saints’ Day is a date marked on the calendar to honor and remember loved ones who are no longer with us. Cemeteries that are filled with visitors, where curiosity also reigns to learn more about where some historical personalities rest. A great interest among travelers for mysterious tombs, which arises days after celebrating Halloween. Thus, the first day of November highlights the memory of those who are no longer with us, whether they are from our close circle or famous people who do not fall into oblivion. But, which are the most visited tombs in Catalonia? Interestingly, while the cemeteries are the emblematic place on the festive day, visitors will not find in these cemeteries the two most visited tombs in Catalonia. To do this, you will have to go to the Sagrada Familia and the Teatre-Museu de Figueres.Antoni GaudíAntoni Gaudí’s crypt is the most visited in Catalonia. An acknowledgment to the architect, who rests in the basilica of the Sagrada Familia, with more than three million people who have spent the last year at his tomb, located in the Barcelona temple, one of his masterpieces. An emblematic place that suffered a setback in 1936, during the early days of the Civil War. A group set fire to the crypt, destroying most of the workshop in which Gaudí had worked. There were his sketches, models and models, although days after the destruction, the broken fragments were rescued and kept. Salvador Dalí The second most visited tomb is that of Salvador Dalí, which is located under the dome of the Teatre-Museu de Figueres, where 254,434 people visited it last year. A cult of the iconic artist who, before the pandemic, in 2019, some 800,000 visitors passed through it. The Dalí museum was inaugurated in 1974. However, after his death in 1989, the artist brought changes and additions. Among them, his crypt in which he was buried two days after his death, although at first he was going to be buried next to his wife Gala in the castle of Púbol. As a curiosity, in the early hours of July 20, 2017 , the artist’s body was exhumed from his crypt in order to obtain DNA samples by order of the Court of First Instance number 11 of Madrid, in relation to an unfounded claim of paternity. Carlos Ruiz ZafónZafón died in Los Angeles (United States), his place of residence, so part of his ashes remained in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery and another in Montjuïc, specifically in Via Santa Eulàlia, where they house several modernist tombs.