Guided tour to the jewish necropolis of Lucena

Stage 13

In 2006, the construction of the ring road in the south of Lucena revealed a cemetery from the Andalusian medieval period. Some 346 tombs appeared that adapted to the topography of the land in which the burial ritual used was burial, in a single or double grave, sometimes with a niche or lateral covacha covered with flagstones or Roman tégulas.

The skeletal remains that determined an early medieval period between the years 1000 and 1050 coincided with the dates of greatest splendor of the Jewish Lucena and made it possible to extract relevant data about the way of life and funerary ritual of the Jewish community at this time.