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Yesterday November 1, Cartagena commemorated the feast of All Saints.
The day began in the neighborhood of Santa Lucia at 11 am with the arrival of the delegation of representatives of the political groups to the cemetery of Our Lady of Los Remedios, which thousands of people were displaced to honor with flowers to their dead .
There, the councilor for the Quality of Life, Francisco Calderon, attended by the Councillor for Tourism Obdulia Gómez, Mass celebrated at 12 hours.
Also they participated in the Mass councilors Antonio Calderon and Alvaro Valdes, the Popular Party, and Manuel Padin and Ana Branch, Citizen.
After the ceremony, Obdulia Francisco Calderon and Gomez made the traditional offering of a wreath at the cross of the central esplanade, in memory of all Cartagena died in the past year.
Complementing this, the municipal representatives attended the cemetery of San Antonio Abad in San Anton, and made another offering of flowers at 12.30.
The delegation from the Municipal Corporation, headed by Councilman Francisco Calderon, visited during the day the four cemeteries whose administration depends on the City of Cartagena, such as that of Our Lady of Remedios, Santa Lucia, San Antonio Abad in the neighborhood San Anton, the cemetery of Alumbres and San Ginés de la Jara.
MANAGEMENT OF MUNICIPAL CEMETERIES TRANSPARENT
The four municipally owned cemeteries are managed by autonomous body.
They are the Boards Cemetery, composed of citizens.
It is a nineteenth-century institutions, on which the current Councillor for Quality of Life, Francisco Calderon, wants to be transparent and realize their economic management to municipal services.
Thus, since early this year have started to present for the first time to the Municipal Treasury data on the income recorded by the collection of rates burial and rental of niches and pantheons, authorized by the City and expenditure recorded by management.
The balances in the first two quarters of this year show revenues of about 606,000 euros, compared with expenditures of 465,000.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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