Malaga. The English cemetery (Cementerio Inglés)

Paseo del reading passes into Avenida de Priez, along the left side of which stretches the fence of the first Protestant cemetery on the Iberian Peninsula.
By the beginning of the 19th century, a large English Diaspora was formed in Malaga, whose members sooner or later ended their life on Spanish soil. The problem was that the British were Protestants, and all the burial sites in Malaga were Catholic. In 1821, the British Consul William mark asked the Governor to allocate a cemetery site, and on November 21 of the same year, the city Council allocated a plot at the very beginning of the Avenida de Pires.
On April 11, 1930, by Royal decree, the site was transferred to the ownership of the British government, that is, it became, in fact, the territory of great Britain. Before the end of the year, the cemetery was equipped and on January 22, 1831, the first burial appeared here. Since 2006, the cemetery has been managed by a special non-profit Foundation, and in 2012 the cemetery was added to the register of cultural heritage of Andalusia.