The IV IN MEMORIAM Funeral Culture Days start on October 30 in Córdoba

The IV IN MEMORIAM Funeral Culture Days will be held in Córdoba between Friday, October 30 and Monday, November 2, according to the Sísifo Research Group of the University of Córdoba, which organizes them together with TdCO. The event combines archaeology, art, dance and gastronomy to bring the public closer to the heritage and traditions linked to death, coinciding with All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day.

The opening will take place on Friday, October 30, at 18:00, in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, with the lecture «Death and ritual in Ancient Egypt: recent finds and ongoing research», by Mª José López Grande, president of the Spanish Association of Egyptology. After the lecture, the exhibition «Ars Moriendi» will be presented, produced by students of the subject Procedures and Resources for Art History, which will be installed in the columned hall of the same building and can be visited until November 30. On Saturday, October 31, the Archaeological Museum of Córdoba will host at 11:30 the workshop «Funerary urns. A millenary tradition», aimed at people aged 16 and over. In the afternoon, at 20:00, the San Rafael-Alcaria Dance Group will offer at the Teatro Cómico Principal the show «Dancing the Passage», which incorporates dance and Andalusian popular folklore. On Sunday, November 1, at 12:00, the Auditorium of the Tanatorio de las Quemadas will be the setting for the talk-tasting «Gastronomy of Saints and Souls». In the afternoon there will be two visits to the Interpretation Centre of the Roman Funerary World, at the Mausoleums of Puerta de Gallegos, with sessions at 17:00 and 18:00. The programme will conclude on Monday, November 2, at 12:00, with the visit «From the Archaeological Museum to the Afterlife», at the Archaeological Museum of Córdoba, which covers the rites and beliefs of the Iberian, Roman, Christian, Islamic and Jewish cultures.

The opening lecture and the dance show have free entry until full capacity is reached. For the dramatized visit to the Chapel of San Bartolomé, the talk-tasting and the visits to the mausoleums, prior reservation is required by writing to aeternitas@tanatoriocordoba.com. The activities of the Archaeological Museum require registration at the reservations page. Reservations for the visit on November 2 open on October 26 at 09:00, and those for the funerary urns workshop on October 28 at 09:00. The days were launched in 2023 and since then have included visits, lectures, workshops and artistic proposals in funerary spaces and historic sites of the city.