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Jewish Cemetery of Sagunto

Sagunt/Sagunto, El Camp de Morvedre, Valencia

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Jewish Cemetery of Sagunto

Monument · Sagunt/Sagunto, El Camp de Morvedre, Valencia

The Jewish cemetery of Sagunto, the first in Spain open to visitors and one of the most important in Europe, occupies a strip of about 4 hectares behind the Roman theatre, at the foot of the castle walls. It contains around 60 hypogea cut into the rock together with individual trapezoidal graves oriented north to south, with the head towards the south, and bracelets and earrings of gold and silver have been found beside the bodies. It remained in use until the expulsion of the Jews in 1492.

Photo: Simon Burchell (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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