The San Rafael and San Roque cemetery, which in 2004 was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC), will host three theatrical performances on December 2 and 3 on the occasion of the Plenilunio program of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, as reported by the City hall.
The activity, titled Doubloons for eternitywill be carried out by the historian Néstor Verona and the Teatro Burka company.
This cemetery, located in what was then the outskirts of the city, intended to provide a solution to the increase in deaths caused by epidemics and the demographic increase at the beginning of the 19th century, and is divided into two parts, the Catholic one, older, and the Protestant, and houses personalities from the history of Santa Cruz such as Sabino Berthelot, Ireneo González, Imeldo Serís or Secundino Delgado.
This cemetery was built in 1910 in the Cuatro Torres neighborhood with money from the neighbors, since the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, whose mayor was José María de Villa y Martínez, did not have assets or income to dedicate to the most basic needs. according to the documentation of the capital of Tenerife.
It receives the name of San Miguel and San Roque because the first of them is the archangel in charge of warding off diseases and the second is the advocate of plague and epidemics.
With capacity for 20,000 bodies, it was completed on March 4, 1823, but due to two yellow fever epidemics in which 387 people died in 1846 and 540 in 1862, extensions were made.
Theatrical sessions
As for the theatrical performances, they will be on December 2, from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m., and on Sunday, December 3, in two sessions, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. :30 hours.
It will consist of a theatrical route by the Burka Teatro company that will have the historical and heritage contextualization of the popularizer Néstor Verona, in which a story documented in the 16th century about the family saga of the conqueror Hernando del Hoyo will be represented.
It will be a historical comedy, set in the mid-16th century, about the desire of a wealthy landowner to receive burial and funeral honors worthy of her lineage, at the main altar of one of the main churches on the island, which combines live theater and opera, and the explanations and contextualization of a heritage historian, explained the councilor.
The three screenings of these theatrical performances will be free and each one will have a maximum capacity of 100 people, for which prior registration is not necessary, but will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
