Cemitério Municipal de Santana
São Paulo, Italy
The Cemitério Municipal de Santana (Municipal Cemetery of Santana), popularly known as Chora Menino (English: cry boy), is a cemetery located in the northeastern zone of São Paulo in the district of Santana, and is one of the oldest cemeteries in Brazil. It was officially recognized as a cemetery in
1897 and has an area of 38,485m². The local Jewish community used the location as a cemetery until 1970 known as Cemitério Israelita de Santana. The name Chora Menino comes from a local tale about a woman who is said to have lived in the region who threw abandoned newborn babies into the valley alongside the cemetery for vultures to eat. The cemetery is located on the Rua Nova dos Portugueses in the Imirim neighborhood.
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