The company responsible for the installation of the new funeral home in Barcelona, ??Proxima Serveis Funeraris, has set the opening date of this service in the Sants neighborhood on July 13, as Beteve has announced.
After a year and a half of works and in the face of strong neighborhood opposition, the funeral home will be located in the main warehouse of Can CLiment, where a Happy Parc used to be.
Those responsible point out that the funeral home responds to the need to integrate this type of facility into the urban fabric in order to offer a local service to families, thus serving the districts of Sants-Montjuïc, les Corts, Eixample and Ciutat Vella.
The Stop Tanatori platform denounced that where the first chiquipark in Barcelona operated for years, a funeral home will now be installed. This body and the more than 8,000 firms that support them understand that the neighborhood has other needs. The fact is that the accesses to the new candle rooms and the chapel of the future funeral home will be arranged in front of the basketball courts and the pingpong tables in question.
The protests wanted the City Council to shield these neighborhood uses, thus seeking to prioritize citizen activities, and above all to do so before the municipal elections.
Finally, and pending the contentious processes initiated are resolved, the funeral home will start operating in less than a week.
Before the announcement of the inauguration date, Stop Tanatori has called a demonstration against it. In the announcement they affirm that it is an “unnecessary activity in a place that is appropriate”. It will be on Thursday, July 13, in Plaza Sant Climent, from 12:00 to 14:00.
