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Panteón Jardín

{{Short description|Historic cemetery in Mexico City, Mexico}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}}

{{Infobox cemetery

| name = Panteón Jardín

| image = Entrada_del_Panteón_Jardín_-_panoramio.jpg

| imagesize =

| map_type = Mexico Mexico City

| map_size =

| map_caption =

| caption = Panteón Jardín entrance

| established = {{Start date|1941|10}}

| country = Mexico

| location = Mexico City

| coordinates = {{coord|19.3504937|-99.21045732|display=inline,title}}

| type = Private, non-denominational

| style =

| owner =

| size = {{convert|60|ha|acre}}

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| website =

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Panteón Jardín ("Garden Cemetery") is a cemetery in Mexico City in which several notable people are interred. It is located in the southwest of the city, between the San Ángel and Olivar de los Padres boroughs.{{cite book

|last1=Hinerman

|first1=Nate

|last2=Glahn

|first2=Julia Apollonia

|date=2012

|title=The Presence of the Dead in Our Lives

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f9LsbpKUlnwC

|publisher=Rodopi

|isbn=978-9401208529

|access-date=2022-06-18

|archive-date=2022-05-26

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526223736/https://books.google.com/books?id=f9LsbpKUlnwC

|url-status=live

}}{{cite web |url=https://educacionao.mx/wp/monumentos-historicos-2/panteon-jardin-de-mexico/ |title=Panteón Jardín de México |access-date=26 May 2022 |language=es |trans-title=Garden Cemetery of Mexico |archive-date=18 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618195903/https://educacionao.mx/wp/monumentos-historicos-2/panteon-jardin-de-mexico/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/ciudad/116037.html |title=Tumbas de famosos, alternativa de turismo |last=Gutierrez |first=Gabriela |date=26 March 2013 |access-date=26 May 2022 |language=es |trans-title=Celebrities graves, an alternative to tourism |archive-date=4 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104105557/https://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/ciudad/116037.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://mxcity.mx/2016/06/panteon-jardin-cementerio-estelar-mexico/ |title=Panteón Jardín: el cementerio estelar de México |last=Blanco |first=David C. |date=30 April 2005 |access-date=26 May 2022 |language=es |trans-title=Garden Cemetery, the stellar graveyard of Mexico |archive-date=30 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130144852/http://mxcity.mx/2016/06/panteon-jardin-cementerio-estelar-mexico/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/panteon-jardin-donde-descansan-los-idolos-mexicanos.html |title=Panteón Jardín: el cementerio donde descansan los ídolos mexicanos |date=October 15, 2019 |access-date=26 May 2022 |language=es |trans-title=Garden Cemetery, where mexican idols rest |archive-date=25 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725191242/https://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/panteon-jardin-donde-descansan-los-idolos-mexicanos.html |url-status=live }}

It is a garden cemetery, built in what used to be the outskirts of the city in the 1930s. It's wide central boulevard leads to a small hill in the back.{{cite book

|last=Joseph

|first=Gilbert M.

|author-link=

|date=2001

|title=Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mHDs6BXanLUC

|publisher=Duke University Press

|isbn=9780822327189

|access-date=2022-06-18

|archive-date=2022-05-26

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526233113/https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=mHDs6BXanLUC

|url-status=live

}} It's near 150 acres are used mostly for Catholic burials, but has a special section for Jewish ones, called La Fraternidad (The Fraternity). Since 1946, another section belongs to the National Association of Actors (National Association of Actors), used mainly for actors and actresses.{{cite web |url=https://vanguardia.com.mx/show/3192231-profanan-la-tumba-de-jorge-negrete-CYVG3192231 |title=Profanan la tumba de Jorge Negrete |date=June 2016 |access-date=26 May 2022 |language=es |trans-title=The graveyard of Jorge Negrete is desecrated |archive-date=18 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618195904/https://vanguardia.com.mx/show/3192231-profanan-la-tumba-de-jorge-negrete-CYVG3192231 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/recordaresvivir/lean-esto-lote-de-actores-de-la-a-n-d-a-en-el-pant-t2171-s10.html

|title= Lote de Actores de la A.N.D.A. en el Panteón Jardín |date=30 January 2013 |access-date=17 Jun 2022 |language=es |trans-title=N.A.A. space at Jardin Cemetery}} It has a capacity of 85,000 graves. It's non-denominational, and even as a private cemetery, it's open to the public.

Notable people buried here are artists, musicians, actors and actresses, politicians and presidents. This makes it a tourist attraction and pilgrimage site for the fans of popular culture Mexican actors, specially from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, like Pedro Infante,{{cite news |last=Avendaño |first=Reyna |date=15 April 2018 |title=The day a country sang in mourning |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/english/day-country-sang-mourning |work=El Universal |location=Mexico City, Mexico |access-date=26 May 2022 |archive-date=27 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527000044/https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/english/day-country-sang-mourning |url-status=live }}{{cite book

|last1=Beezley

|first1=William H.

|last2=Curcio-Nagy

|first2=Linda A.

|author-link=

|date=2011

|title=Latin American Popular Culture since Independence: An Introduction

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XXSA5bYmhooC

|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

|isbn=9781442212565

|access-date=2022-06-18

|archive-date=2022-06-18

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618195902/https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=XXSA5bYmhooC

|url-status=live

}} Jorge Negrete and Pedro Armendariz.{{cite web |url=https://elregio.com/Noticia/ba05e3f8-a856-44e6-b534-7a9a2c57149c |title=Famosos descansan entre el recuerdo y el olvido en el Panteón Jardín |date=1 January 2016 |access-date=26 May 2022 |language=es |trans-title=Celebrities rest between remembered and forgotten |archive-date=18 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618195902/https://elregio.com/Noticia/ba05e3f8-a856-44e6-b534-7a9a2c57149c |url-status=live }} Every April 15, a multitude of up to 7,000 people come to the grave of Pedro Infante paying homage to the beloved actor, bringing flowers and photos, playing music with mariachis and riding motorcycles.{{cite web |url=https://www.20minutos.com.mx/noticia/b139855/entre-canciones-y-aplausos-recuerdan-a-pedro-infante-en-panteon-jardin/ |title=Entre canciones y aplausos recuerdan a Pedro Infante en panteón Jardín |last=Joliet |first=François |date=15 April 2014 |access-date=26 May 2022 |language=es |trans-title=Between songs and hand clapping, Pedro Infante is remembered at Garden Cemetery |archive-date=18 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618195904/https://www.20minutos.com.mx/noticia/b139855/entre-canciones-y-aplausos-recuerdan-a-pedro-infante-en-panteon-jardin/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.milenio.com/espectaculos/panteon-jardin-el-lugar-donde-descansa-pedro-infante |title=Panteón Jardín, el lugar donde descansa Pedro Infante |date=14 April 2017 |access-date=26 May 2022 |language=es |trans-title=Garden Cemetery, where Pedro Infante rests |archive-date=26 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526232835/https://www.milenio.com/espectaculos/panteon-jardin-el-lugar-donde-descansa-pedro-infante |url-status=live }}

Notable burials

=Artists and painters=

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  • Cordelia Urueta{{cite book |title= Tesoros del Registro Civil Salón de la Plástica Mexicana |trans-title=Treasures of the Civil Registry Salón de la Plástica Mexicana |year=2012 |publisher= Government of Mexico City and CONACULTA |location=Mexico |language=Spanish |page=216}}{{cite news |title= Muere Cordelia Urueta |newspaper=Reforma |location=Mexico City |date=November 4, 1995 |page=3 |language=Spanish |trans-title=Cordelia Urueta dies }}
  • Dalla Husband
  • Emilio Prados - Spanish writer{{cite web | last=David | first=Liliana | title=El misterio y el exilio mexicano del gran poeta Emilio Prados | website=ctxt.es | url=https://ctxt.es/es/20220801/Firmas/40586/Liliana-David-serie-verano-mexico-poeta-emilio-prados.htm | language=es | access-date=2025-03-06 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118001827/https://ctxt.es/es/20220801/Firmas/40586/Liliana-David-serie-verano-mexico-poeta-emilio-prados.htm | archive-date=2024-01-18}}{{cite book | last=Vázquez | first=Adolfo Sánchez | title=Incursiones literarias | publisher=UNAM| publication-place=México| date=2009 | isbn=9786070203961 | language=es | page=408}}
  • Francisco Díaz de León{{cite book |title=Tesoros del Registro Civil Salón de la Plástica Mexicana |trans-title=Treasures of the Civil Registry Salón de la Plástica Mexicana |year=2012 |publisher=Government of Mexico City and CONACULTA |location=Mexico |language=es |pages=68 }}
  • Guillermo Meza{{cite book |title= Tesoros del Registro Civil Salón de la Plástica Mexicana |year=2012 |publisher=Gobierno del Distrito Federal y CONACULTA |location= México |pages=138–139 |language=es |trans-title=Treasures of the Civil Registry Salon de la Plástica Mexiana }}
  • Luis Cernuda - Spanish poet
  • Mercedes Pinto - Spanish writer
  • Raúl Anguiano

{{cite web

|url=https://www.jornada.com.mx/2006/01/16/index.php?section=cultura&article=a07n1cul

|title=Con ovaciones despiden a Raúl Anguiano en el Panteón Jardín

|last=PALAPA QUIJAS

|first= FABIOLA

|date=16 January 2006

|publisher=La Jornada

|access-date=5 July 2022

|language=es |trans-title=With cheers they say goodbye to Raúl Anguiano at Panteón Jardín

}}

{{cite web

|url=https://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/325422.html

|title=Descansará Raúl Anguiano en el Panteón Jardín

|last=

|first=

|date=15 January 2006

|website=El Universal

|publisher=Notimex

|access-date=5 July 2022

|language=es |trans-title=Raúl Anguiano rests at Panteón Jardín

}}

  • Remedios Varo{{cite web |url=https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2020/09/07/remedios-varo-part-5-the-productive-years/ |title= Remedios Varo. Part 5. The productive years. |date=7 September 2020 |access-date=17 Jun 2022}}
  • Xavier Guerrero{{cite book |title=Tesoros del Registro Civil Salón de la Plástica Mexicana |trans-title=Treasures of the Civil Registry Salón de la Plástica Mexicana |year=2012 |publisher=Government of Mexico City and CONACULTA |location=Mexico |language=es |pages=96–97 }}

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=Actors=

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{{cite web

|url=https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/recordaresvivir/biografia-de-gloria-marin-t171.html

|title=Biografía de Gloria Marín

|date=15 May 2003

|access-date=July 22, 2022

|language=es |trans-title=Gloria Marín Biography

}}

{{cite web

|url=https://www.infobae.com/america/entretenimiento/2021/04/19/gloria-marin-la-actriz-que-mato-de-amor-a-jorge-negrete/

|title=Gloria Marín, la actriz que "mató" de amor a Jorge Negrete

|date=19 April 2021

|publisher=InfoBae

|access-date=July 22, 2022

|language=es |trans-title=Gloria Marín, the actress which killed Jorge Negrete with love

}}

|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/hoy/ct-hoy-8056975-descansara-pedro-armendariz-jr-al-lado-de-su-padre-story.html

|title=Descansará Pedro Armendáriz Jr. al lado de su padre

|date=3 Jan 2012

|publisher=Chicago Tribune

|access-date=June 4, 2023

|language=es |trans-title=Pedro Armendáriz Jr. will rest at the side of his father

}}

  • Pedro Infante
  • Prudencia Grifell
  • Salvador Flores Rivera «Chava Flores»
  • Silvia Pinal{{cite web | last=García | first=Itzel | title=Muerte de Silvia Pinal: revelan donde reposarán las cenizas de la diva del Cine de Oro | website=Radio Fórmula | date=2024-11-29 | url=https://www.radioformula.com.mx/espectaculos/2024/12/2/muerte-de-silvia-pinal-revelan-donde-reposaran-las-cenizas-de-la-diva-del-cine-de-oro-843243.html | language=es | access-date=2024-12-17}}{{cite web | last=León | first=Jacqueline Ponce | title=¿Qué sucederá con las cenizas de Silvia Pinal? | website=REFORMA | date=2024-12-02 | url=https://www.reforma.com/que-sucedera-con-las-cenizas-de-silvia-pinal/ar2916305 | language=es | access-date=2024-12-17}}{{cite web | title=Restos de Silvia Pinal ya descansan en el Panteón Jardín; ¿quiénes más están ahí enterrados? | website=La Opinión | date=2025-02-15 | url=https://laopinion.com/2025/02/15/restos-de-silvia-pinal-ya-descansan-en-el-panteon-jardin-que-otros-famosos-estan-ahi-enterrados/ | language=es | access-date=2025-02-17}}
  • Tito Junco
  • Toña la Negra

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=Musicians=

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=Others=

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  • Adolfo López Mateos and his wife Eva Sámano - Former Mexican president and First Lady{{cite web |url=http://enciclopedia.udg.mx/biografias/lopez-mateos-adolfo |title=Biografía: López Mateos, Adolfo |date=19 July 2019 |access-date=17 Jun 2022 |language=es |trans-title=Biography: López Mateos, Adolfo |archive-date=18 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618195905/http://enciclopedia.udg.mx/biografias/lopez-mateos-adolfo |url-status=live }}
  • Daniel Cosío Villegas - Economist and scholar
  • Elena Arizmendi Mejía - Neutral White Cross founder{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Acta de Defunción|1949}} |author= |title=Acta de Defunción: Arizmendi Mejía, Elena |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GR5D-9VLP?i=770&cc=1923424&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQGH3-SPM8 |access-date=28 September 2021 |website=FamilySearch |publisher=Archivo de Registro Civil de Distrito Federal |date=4 November 1949 |location=Mexico City, Mexico |language=Spanish |trans-title=Death Certificate: Arizmendi Mejía, Elena |id=Cuauhtémoc, Certificate #10, volume 201, page 11, microfilm image 771}}{{cite journal |last1=Cano |first1=Gabriela |author-link=Gabriela Cano Ortega |title=Elena Arizmendi, una habitación propia en Nueva York, 1916–1938 |journal=Arenal |url=https://gabrielacano.colmex.mx/images/pdf/elena-arizmendi-habitacion-propia.pdf|doi=10.30827/arenal.v18i1.1442 |date=January–June 2011 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=85–114 |access-date=5 July 2022 |publisher=Instituto de Estudios de la Mujer |location=Granada, Spain |doi-broken-date=November 1, 2024 |language=Spanish |trans-title=Elena Arizmendi, A Room of her Own in New York, 1916–1938 |issn=1134-6396 }}
  • Guillermo González Camarena - Inventor of a type of color television
  • Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and his wife Guadalupe Borja - Former Mexican president and First Lady{{cite web |url=https://www.milenio.com/cultura/la-tumba-de-aquel-presidente |title=La tumba de aquel presidente |date=September 28, 2018 |access-date=26 May 2022 |language=es |trans-title=The grave of that president |archive-date=6 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006013744/https://www.milenio.com/cultura/la-tumba-de-aquel-presidente |url-status=live }}
  • José Miguel Noguera - Football player
  • Kid Azteca - Boxer{{cite web |url=https://www.jornada.com.mx/2002/03/17/30an3dep.php |title= Adiós Kid |date=17 March 2002 |access-date=17 Jun 2022 |language=es |trans-title=Goodbye Kid}}
  • Kingo Nonaka
  • {{interlanguage link|Luis Castro "el Soldado"|es}} - Bullfighter
  • María Teresa Pomar - Folk art scholar{{cite news |title= Sepultan a María Teresa Pomar, impulsora del arte popular |url= http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2010/01/14/cultura/a06n2cul |newspaper= La Jornada |location=Mexico City |page=6 |date=January 14, 2010 |access-date=July 19, 2022 |language=es}}
  • Manuel Palafox - Politician and soldier

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References

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External links

{{Commons category|Panteón Jardín, Mexico City}}

  • {{URL|https://wikimapia.org/1493691/es/Pante%C3%B3n-Jard%C3%ADn|Wikimapia for Panteón Jardín}}

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