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Cemetery of Luarca, Valdés
Luarca is the capital of the Council of Valdés. This cemetery, which was built in 1813, is on the promontory known as La Atalaya (The Watchtower), on the edge of the Cantabrian Sea.
The cemetery of Luarca has wonderful modernist mausoleums and splendid views of the sea, the village, the lighthouse and the harbour. As it is on a slope, the tombs are located on terraces.
The Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology in 1959, Severo Ochoa, is buried in this beautiful cemetery.