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Old Dec 02, 2018, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by bluebicycle View Post
We finally found a grave spot to bury my grandparents! They're going to be buried together.

We had placed them in temporary graves while we waited to find an actual grave site for them. I have no idea what you call those temporary graves. It's basically a giant concrete wall with empty "slots" to place a coffin. Then you seal up the "slot" with concrete once you slide in a coffin. You can keep the bodies there for a max of 5 years.

They look like this:

The cemetery is very full in general, so we had to wait a while to find a spot for them.

In Spanish culture, it is very common to have elaborate tombstones. For example,



That's from Cuba, but we're not cuban. It's just an example. But that's why we had such a hard time finding a gravesite.
That is el cementerio the Colon. With an accent in the last o.
Meaning Columbus is Spanish.
It is the one with the most marble in the world.
I know. I'm Cuban.
I doubt you'll find a burial site there.

Cheers.
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