Just a little ways down on the same side of the street as the temple is the local cemetary. As in Spain they don't dig the graves down into the ground. Here they usually put a little crypt above ground. In Spain they put the caskets on a kind of shelf in a cupboard and seal the end shut with mortar. This is one of the few trees, a very well manicured one.
We've driven past the cemeteries in many of the little towns we've been through and I find them very interesting and attractive so included some pictures of the one here in Belen. There us a wall all the way around the cemetery, but the gate was open when I walked by so I decided to walk through.
These are two older weatherbeaten looking crypts. Most of the crypts are faced with marble or ceramic tile and it seems to weather better than the concrete.
This is the covered walkway through the middle of the cemetery. It makes nice shade for the walk through.
Close up of the flowered vines growing over the coverred walkway. The flowers are purple like wysteria, but are a different flower.
At the far end is where the people who couldn't afford a crypt are burried, so I guess they do put some of the graves in the ground.
There are quite a few pretty statues on some of the crypts.
This statue is probably Mary. Then there are several crosses in the background.
I imagine that with the cross is his hand, this is suppossed to be Jesus.
A large angel and a little cherrub.
A smaller angel.
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