Valencia, Spain - further exploration of the village.

 Still drizzling when I got up so no bus trip today. When if cleared later I decided to go looking for the museum in Canet den Berenguer village. 

Rather than taking the farm road, I took the main road, flanked on both sides by orange groves

 

with steep hills in the background.

I thought this might be a farm building until I saw the cross on top and

around the corner I found the entrance to the cemetery. 

It was right on the outer edge of the village. Many of the tombs had plastic bouquets.

Cemeteries in Spain became separate from churches primarily due to 19th-century public health concerns, influenced by Enlightenment ideas, which viewed church burials as unsanitary, especially in growing cities

. Laws were enacted to move graveyards to city outskirts, leading to the creation of municipal cemeteries for all citizens, rather than just churchyards, though this process faced resistance from the clergy and was also driven by the need for space and managing non-Catholic burials. From AI summary.

A modern cross.

 

and a more traditional one

over a tombstone with a list of names, dated Aug 21, 1936. This may have been something to do with a battle in the Spanish Civil War.

The Spanish coup of July 1936^{[nb 1]} was a military uprising that was intended to overthrow the Spanish Second Republic, but precipitated the Spanish Civil War, in which Nationalists fought against Republicans for control of Spain. The coup was organized for 18 July 1936, although it started the previous day in Spanish Morocco. Instead of resulting in a prompt transfer of power, the coup split control of the Spanish military and territory roughly in half. The resulting civil war ultimately led to the establishment of a military dictatorship under Francisco Franco, who became ruler of Spain as caudillo.  from Wikipedia

Roses and Bird of Paradise in front of room for more.

 

Angels Trumpet.

A tile of one of the stations of the cross on the sidewalk into the village. I wonder if they parade from the church to the cemetery at Lent.

Well I found the museum,

nothing on the door,

faded posters advertising exhibitions in 2015.

I will save further village pictures for a "slow news day".