Baiona Jewish cemetery 330 years
- In the 17th century, when the Inquisition expelled the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, some of them took refuge in Baiona.
Since they were unable to reside in the interior of the walls of Baiona, they settled in the district of Santispiritu.And in 1689 the cemetery opened. The cemetery currently has 2 hectares of land and about 4,000 graves, the second largest in Europe, after that of Amsterdam. The oldest graves are all of the same size and inscriptions in Spanish. In the 19th century, the richest began to make larger graves, and the difference between the two fragments became apparent. In addition, since the French Revolution, the inscriptions in French began to be made.
In Bidaxun and Labastida there are also Jewish cemeteries, but they are closed; the Baiona cemetery is the only one that remains open in the area, the only one where Jews are still buried.
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