Family sign special powers To send Rafael Altamira and Pilar Redondo back to El Campello from Mexico. This is another step forward in the long and arduous administrative process that goes into getting the burial back of the deceased. Prestigious humanist from Alicante and his wife They will be transported from the Mexican Federal District cemetery to the El Campello cemetery, where they will rest with their parents and father-in-law.
In addition, the author’s family signed special powers before a notary public for these cases, subject to the rules stemming from the Hague provisions, authorizing a private funeral home to handle exhumation, burning and sending the ballot boxes to Spain. The mandates currently in Mexico were signed by Rafael and Pilar’s closest surviving relative, his eldest-grandson, María Luz Altamira García-Tapia, as reported by the Campellero City Council this Friday.
Henceforth and always Embassy Spain in Mexico adheres to a case of Spanish governments starting from the El Campello City Council, proposal of mayor Juanjo Berenguer Activate your protocols so that the transfer is as fast as possible, supported by all political parties.
In addition to the City Council, they agreed to take on the administration and costs of the municipality. Committee Province of Alicante and generalitat Valencian.
HE last backup This initiative came with an action at El Campello last February in which Generalitat President Ximo Puig and the Valencian Cultural Council expressed their support for the repatriation of Rafael Altamira (Alicante, 1866-Mexico DF, 1951). inside general assembly of cultural property For this purpose, organized in the tourism resort
Thus, there is a common façade to bring El Campello, which Altamira loved so much, from the cemetery in Mexico, where she lay in a grave in poor condition. The most important figure in the history of Spainfor being the first Spaniard to form part of the tribunal today known as the International Court of The Hague, and also for being nominated twice Nobel Peace Prize and honorary doctorates from the universities of Bordeaux, Paris, Mexico, Santiago de Chile, Lima, Columbia and Cambridge.
The mayor of Altamira and his family agreed a year ago to support what was expected to be a long and complex process to repatriate his remains. Altamira is a personally known Interview given to the newspaper “El Día” on May 2, 1935“When I leave official life I will retreat to the corner of my most delightful loves: Campello”. And in this way they want to fulfill their desires.